Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 26 June 2013

Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Public Expenditure and Reform

Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Bill 2012: Committee Stage

2:10 pm

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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I would like to make a couple of brief observations. I could labour this point forever. The Minister referred to the EU treaty obligations. I call that what I expect to be told. That figure - the figure we paid last year and the figure we are paying next year - is not in the EU treaty. It is a calculated figure based on the principles in the treaty.