Dr. Sonia Piedrafita:

It is also a quantitative check. The current proposals come to the committee and the committee decides which proposals to scrutinise further or not. That further scrutiny is good quality. Ireland has established a procedure where it has received all these proposals and decides to scrutinise them. There is much to do regarding the political dialogue with the Commission. We do not find there has been a breach with the subsidiarity principle but Ireland should try to do a better job in sending comments on the substance of the proposal so that the Commission can hear its voice.