Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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As a former Member of the European Parliament, I can say that such a manoeuvre would causes substantial problems at a European level. It is for precisely that reason that we have we have both the Article 3 and Article 4 options available to us. The Minister says that it is important that we have our say. Essentially, it is the Minister and his Department because we do not know what is in the annexes that might require some amendment. Our question has to be: what say does the Minister want? What would he be seeking to change within the current proposal that he would need to have that voice in there and surrender that opt-in?