Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 16 July 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs
Democratic Legitimacy and Accountability in the EU: Discussion (Resumed) with Foundation for European Progressive Studies
3:50 pm
Eric Byrne (Dublin South Central, Labour)
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I would point out that one of the previous witnesses, a well-known Irish economist, suggested that proportional representation was the problem and that Irish politicians could never complete the project of studying the democratic legitimacy and accountability in the EU because our interests were always elsewhere.