Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 29 September 2016

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Estimates for Public Services 2016: Minister of State at the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform

9:00 am

Photo of Michael D'ArcyMichael D'Arcy (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Yes, even in an emergency. It would not matter. For anything to happen, European legislation must be broken. What is required is a derogation in that unique set of circumstances, but it has not been achieved or looked for. I ask the Minister of State to progress that issue, but there is no point in progressing it if it will take seven years to get an answer.

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