Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 25 May 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach

Brexit - Recent Developments and Future Negotiations: Discussion (Resumed)

10:00 am

Mr. Niall Cody:

In a policy area such as that covered by Mr. Colgan's team, it gets to a natural size. The legislation is only so big in respect of the work to be done on it but when we get into the operational area such as Brexit plus one - the end of transitional arrangements - there will be staff in operational areas who will have to go-----