Alice-Mary Higgins (Independent) | Oireachtas source

This is one of the issues we signalled and would have expected answers to. It is a concern in itself if decisions relating to spending public money - €12 million may seem a small sum to Mr. Ryan but it is quite significant to a lot of people - in a way that goes against our own national law. In that context, and I am going back to Article 41.1, why was an evaluation not made, for example, for Ireland to exercise its rights under Article 31.1 to choose to opt out of this measure?