Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 6 March 2018

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

EU Finances Post-2020: European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources

3:15 pm

Photo of Kieran O'DonnellKieran O'Donnell (Fine Gael)
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I hope I am not asking questions that were asked already. Does the Commissioner see any upside to Brexit? Is there any way in which Brexit could be of benefit to Ireland and Europe? I do not believe there is any upside. What type of empirical work has the Commission completed in respect of the impact of a soft Brexit versus a hard Brexit for individual countries? That would inform the approach the Commission would take.