Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)

I move the following motions:

That Dáil Éireann approves the exercise by the State of the option or discretion under Protocol No. 21 on the position of the United Kingdom and Ireland in respect of the area of freedom, security and justice annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, to take part in the adoption and application of the following proposed measure:

proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing, for the period 2014 to 2020, the Justice Programme,

a copy of which was laid before Dáil Éireann on 21st December, 2011.

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