Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

Let us move away from the rational approach to trying to lump everything in, in the context of debating the directive. Let us debate the substance of the directive and work towards achieving a consensus and the changes we want to bring about in the directive that best suits the Irish position overall. At the very least what the directive is trying to do is to put a legal framework around the development of a single open European services market, which is already guaranteed under the EU treaties. It will have no impact on Turkish workers pending the entry of Turkey into the European Union.

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