Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 March 2021

Committee on Public Petitions

Work of the European Ombudsman during Covid-19: Discussion

Photo of Eoghan MurphyEoghan Murphy (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms O'Reilly. Something Ms O'Reilly has spoken about today, and something she speaks about quite a lot in public, is the blame Brussels culture and the ease with which individual member states try to make the EU an unknown or faceless bureaucrat to blame for decision-making at member state level. If I am correct, is the criticism under way of the EU procurement process on the vaccine an example in Ms O'Reilly's mind of the blame Brussels culture? At the same time, earlier in the meeting she spoke about the ECDC not wargaming Covid properly. The US and UK treated it like they were facing a war and mobilised their resources. Ms O'Reilly feels Europe has not done this. Am I correct that this is her view?

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