Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 October 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs
General Affairs Council: Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs
Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source
That is a significant challenge and we have to learn from that for how we progress them into the future. I absolutely hear the Deputy's point on that and on qualified majority voting and the different approaches to enlargement. The committee will hear a lot of ideas, I would imagine, over the coming months about institutional reform, what that would look like and what the shape of it is. Other countries and member states have their own particular views on these things but we have to try to work and build coalitions on our viewpoint and ensure it reflects what we are as a State. Hopefully we will be able to do that through the process.