Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 11 March 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs

Voting Rights of Citizens within EU: European Commission

2:20 pm

Ms Barbara Nolan:

It cannot be binding. In the Treaty of European Union, these are matters that remain the responsibility of the member states. That is the position.

On the EU against the world, obviously, our remit is the EU. Those were mainly the points raised.