Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 May 2017
Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union
Engagement with Ms Gina McIntyre
10:30 am
Mark Daly (Fianna Fail)
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We are looking for solutions. A draft proposal contained in a report on Brexit by the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, of which I am a member, is that all current and future EU programmes, in the absence of an agreement in the alternative, would be funded by Her Majesty's Treasury. While that is also what Ms McIntyre is talking about, in that instance we would require details on the Italian-Swiss programme, that is, the breakdown of how much the EU country contributes and how much the non-EU country contribute to the same programme. It is important for the work of this committee that we do not talk about the theory of INTERREG continuing but how it works in practice in other countries.