Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 November 2012

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Forthcoming Education, Youth and Culture Council: Discussion with Minister for Education and Skills

1:55 pm

Photo of Ruairi QuinnRuairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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From an Irish point of view, we have no particular national areas that we want to protect or are concerned about. Our commitment is to facilitate the implementation of a European Union decision which has got to this point and which has to be taken over the line - in other words, to get the European Parliament and European Council to agree. However, there is no Irish perspective of areas that we are particularly worried about, either from a national or European viewpoint.