Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 November 2017

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

Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals

7:15 pm

Photo of Paddy BurkePaddy Burke (Fine Gael)
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I welcome the delegation. I have been in and out of this meeting to vote in the Seanad, so I am not sure whether some of the questions I intend to ask have been asked. Why does the departure of the UK from the EU mean that some of these changes and new measures need to be introduced? Why would it have such a big impact on the financial business of Europe? When one of the 28 member states leaves, would it not just be a matter of downsizing everything?