Bernard Allen (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)

The European Communities Bill 2006 is very bad because it is subversive and it undermines the primacy of the Oireachtas. People have given their lives to protect the primacy of this Parliament, which is being undermined by a Bill that the Government suggests is simply a technical measure. This legislation is being used as a Trojan horse to undermine everything the Members of this Parliament stand for. The Government tried to sneak in what it claimed was a small technical Bill, but is actually of utmost importance to this House and the citizens whom we, as elected officials, represent. The purpose of the Bill is to amend the European Communities Act 1972, which allowed for the transposition of specific EU law into Irish law by means of statutory instruments.

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