Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 3 November 2015
Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance
Finance (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2015: Committee Stage
5:15 pm
Pearse Doherty (Donegal South West, Sinn Fein)
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The Attorney General had already approved the legislation with "with the approval of the Minister" in it. The Attorney General's view, I assume, is that it was legal under Irish and European law. The issue here is that the Central Bank does not want to take the risk and the Government has jumped.