Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)

The Minister may not be able to give me an answer tonight, but is it possible that member states, acting unanimously, could, in fact, decide to implement some of the provisions contained in the Lisbon treaty, which would not infringe our constitutional position, for example, those under which the Commission would simultaneously communicate, albeit on an informal basis, with the scrutiny committees of national parliaments and respect their responses in the spirit of the treaty as regards subsidiarity?

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