Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 October 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport

General Scheme of the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2020: Discussion

Photo of Ruairi Ó MurchúRuairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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I agree with Senator McCallion's request. I assume that the current legislation is based on the withdrawal agreement and the Irish protocol. Some of the omnibus legislation is very different from that of last year because there was contained within the previous omnibus Bill the cliff-edge scenario, which is not necessarily included in this. The officials must correct me if I am wrong. In fairness, I probably had a notion like Senator McCallion's that we were going to get a greater amount of detail on a greater number of issues, given that there is also a question about what this committee deals with as regards communications.