Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Our interests are aligned with the European Union agenda on a single digital market and an energy union. The Taoiseach should be establishing a pillar straight away, not waiting for the autumn. We should be leading co-operation in that area, not just from an Irish perspective although it will affect Ireland more than anyone else. We should be leading Europe in that approach. We have an interlocutory position and we should use it to lead the safe space talks on those sorts of regulations and standards. That is what we need to do straight away and not wait six months into the autumn as the Commission seems to be suggesting.

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