Dominic Hannigan (Meath East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

To follow on from the question about timescales for the semester, does Ms Day foresee any potential difficulties with this year’s timescales given the elections to the European Parliament in May, the new Members, and the changing of the guard in the Commission later in the year? How does she think it will play out? Should we have any concern about timescales? Deputy Murphy and I spent the past couple of days talking to our European colleagues from other national parliaments and the European Parliament at the Article 13 conference during European Parliament week in Brussels. One thing that was clear to us is that the European Parliament itself wants a much larger role in the semester process. That clearly causes potential conflict between national parliaments and the European Parliament. Does Ms Day have any thoughts on how that might be resolved in the coming years?