Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 31 January 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform

Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals

12:05 pm

Mr. Kyle O'Sullivan:

Every member state is a beneficiary ultimately. The Commission and Mr. Barroso do not like to have a discussion about net contributors and net beneficiaries. They see this as EU spending for the EU as a whole and they resist this issue but they do have to come back occasionally and point out that every member state receives CAP funding, regional and Structural funding and it is spread across the European Union.