Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

Committee on European Union Affairs

Findings of the 2025 European Movement Ireland EU Poll: European Movement Ireland

2:00 am

Ms Noelle O'Connor:

I thank Deputy O'Donoghue. The savings and investment union is something that we will be looking at. We all feel strongly that there is a great drive and a necessity for the capital markets union to be completed to make it more efficient. We had a stock phrase that we used in some of our speeches that we tend to nationalise success and Europeanise failure. Deputy O'Donoghue underlined quite eloquently the importance of us taking ownership and having those difficult conversations on topics such as security and defence, migration and what sort of social programmes we want the EU to enact. We need to have those conversations at a national level. In terms of referendums, we have had nine EU referendums in Ireland. It is important that people feel informed and empowered to vote. We welcome the work the Electoral Commission is doing to encourage more people to register to vote and the whole area of the electoral register, which is something with which all members will be familiar. I thank the Deputy for his comments. We wanted to provide as much detail as possible on the report. I apologise if it does feel a bit like death by statistics but that is always the risk with all things to do with polling and statistics.

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