Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 April 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality

EU Regulations and Directive on International Protection, Asylum and Migration: Discussion

3:30 pm

Photo of Mattie McGrathMattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We raise Topical Issue matters all the time but most of the time, we are lucky to have the line Minister or the Minister of State.

I asked the Minister whether she and the Government will publish the Attorney General's advice in relation to not holding a referendum on this and other aspects of it. As I said, you would nearly think it was our fault this was being rushed and that we had eight years to raise this. The way the Minister is talking, it is like it is our fault that it has been there since 2016 and that we did not ask questions. That is not true because there are limited ways of raising it on Questions on Policy or Legislation, on the Order of Business or during Topical Issue matters, or during Commencement matters in the Seanad. As I said, you do not even get the line Minister answering. I seldom get a Minister to answer questions; it is the Minister of State or someone else. Will the Minister publish the Attorney General's advice?

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