Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 January 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs

European Court of Auditors Annual Report 2020: Discussion

Photo of Ruairi Ó MurchúRuairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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It is a small one regarding the special reports. The European Court of Justice has responsibility for that and it crosses a huge number of subjects. How exactly are these carried out by the ECA? It obviously has to take in in-house expertise and so forth. Will there be some sort of reckoning? I get that some of this is easier to do state by state with regard to the impact of Brexit and the change, let us say, in what has happened here in that we have a greater amount of North-South trade. We obviously have a substantial number of people who have looked to Europe and bypassed Britain because of obvious difficulties. I wonder whether this will appear at some point in one of these special reports. Perhaps Mr. Murphy could give a bit of information on those issues.