Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for their presentations and for the time they are giving to us this morning. It is very much appreciated. I want to go back to the issue of co-ordination across Europe and in the UK. Do the witnesses feel that there could have been far more co-operation among member states on having a coherent set of regulations across Europe rather than individual states taking this on alone? I refer to instances where if something was the regulation in one state, the complete opposite was being done in another. From a European point of view, could there have been a lot more done in the context of how we tackled this problem? This is about looking at the lessons to learn from how we have dealt with this issue, the lessons to be learned as we move forward and putting a constructive set of proposals in place that can be implemented at very short notice.