Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 June 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs

Democratic Legitimacy and Accountability in the European Union: Discussion

3:10 pm

Mr. Francis Jacobs:

Yes, it is a national competence. It is a national decision.

It is up to the Irish Government to decide whether to have free seats and whether to have two or four seats and one would be free, or one in five would be free, or two would be free-----