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Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister of Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Okay.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister of Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I may take the Minister up on that.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: As an Irishman who holds the position of Taoiseach, how could the Taoiseach travel to Europe and represent the view expressed by people in Scotland that they do not want to be dragged out of the European Union and fail, in the same breath or sentence, to represent the views of people on this island who expressed the same wishes and desires through the ballot box in the same referendum?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach rejected a question I did not ask. I asked him a specific question. Does he dispute that at the meeting on Tuesday evening, with Prime Minister David Cameron in the room, he referred to the issue raised with him by the First Minister of Scotland, Ms Nicola Sturgeon, before the referendum result was announced that Scotland would not want to be dragged out of the European Union,...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: In that case, I presume he did express that view.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Did the Taoiseach express the view that Scotland should not be withdrawn from the European Union without its consent?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: The question I originally put to the Taoiseach is why he did not, in the same breath, say that the people of the North of Ireland have spoken and expressed the view that they also do not want to be dragged out of the European Union.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: What is the plan B if Britain does not get access to the Single Market because it would not sign up to the four freedoms? What is the plan B in terms of a hard Border of some sort being imposed? Has the Irish Government a plan B in that regard?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: That will be decided between Britain and the European Commission in the negotiations over the next two years and we will try to influence the process as much as possible in the interests of people, North and South. However, my question concerns what happens if that is not successful. Others, including Cabinet Ministers, have already suggested that, as a result of the way the vote was cast,...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I will move on from the question, but I am not asking the Taoiseach to accept all the things he has just outlined. I do not know if the question is being lost in translation as it crosses the room but what I am asking the Taoiseach to do is reassure me and the people of Donegal, the north west and the Border region that, in the context of these negotiations, if access to the Single Market...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Obviously, the Department supports the role of the Chief Whip and we heard her recent comments, which were that if the EU pursued Ireland in respect of its corporation tax rate, we would not, to use her words, be seen for dust. In case that is lost in translation, it means we would withdraw from the EU. These same comments were echoed by the Taoiseach's former junior Minister for Finance,...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I am glad-----

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach may want to have a word with his Chief Whip after this meeting. She said it on Vincent Browne's programme, which is available on playback.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: The Taoiseach might go out to him some night. He will show the Taoiseach the clip. On the Taoiseach's recent correspondence with the EU President, Mr. Juncker, on flexibility in the fiscal rules - rules that the Taoiseach helped negotiate and sold to the Irish people and on which we had a referendum - will he furnish to the committee a copy of the letter to Mr. Juncker and any response...

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I am glad the Taoiseach supported our position in respect of them.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Estimates for Public Services 2016
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (Revised)
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach (Revised)
Vote 3 - Office of the Attorney General (Revised)
Vote 5 - Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (Revised)
Vote 6 - Office of the Chief State Solicitor (Revised) (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: To clarify the question, will the Taoiseach make the correspondence with President Juncker and the response available to the committee?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: Is there not a gap between Second Stage and Committee Stage?

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I thought there had to be a two-week gap.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: If Committee Stage is taken next Thursday, when is the deadline for amendments? It only passed Second Stage last night.

Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2016)

Pearse Doherty: I question that. I thought there was a commitment in the programme for Government to provide ample time. It passed Second Stage last night. I will try to work towards it.