Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 30 June 2016
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised)
9:00 am
Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
The first is the common travel area. The process worked well when the two countries were outside the European Union and it has worked well with both inside. It has not been tested with one outside and one inside.
I spoke to the Prime Minister, Mr. Cameron, about this on Tuesday. Obviously, he has been well aware of it for a long time. He wants us to do everything possible to maintain the common travel area. In respect of the peace process, we want to maintain the open Border with Northern Ireland if that is possible. The Deputy is aware that trade is a European issue. Ireland is a European country, but we do not want a hard border from Dundalk to Donegal as a European land frontier here in our own country. There is of course scope for bilateral talks on those issues.
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