Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality
Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals: Discussion with Department of Justice and Equality
9:55 am
Ivana Bacik (Independent) | Oireachtas source
I thank Mr. Fennell for his contribution, which highlights again one of the problems with Europe, namely, the marked divergence between the common law system in place in Britain and Ireland on the one hand and the civil law jurisdictions on the other. It is clear we cannot opt in to the regulation given the substance of Article 8.
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