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Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Voting Rights of Citizens within EU: European Commission (11 Mar 2014)

Dominic Hannigan: There will be witnesses in at future meetings to talk about how we would manage it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Voting Rights of Citizens within EU: European Commission (11 Mar 2014)

Dominic Hannigan: If I was Senator Leyden, I would raise that with Roscommon County Council.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Voting Rights of Citizens within EU: European Commission (11 Mar 2014)

Dominic Hannigan: It was only on the register once, was it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Voting Rights of Citizens within EU: European Commission (11 Mar 2014)

Dominic Hannigan: I thank Senator Leyden.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Voting Rights of Citizens within EU: European Commission (11 Mar 2014)

Dominic Hannigan: Absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Voting Rights of Citizens within EU: European Commission (11 Mar 2014)

Dominic Hannigan: In the interests of clarity, is Deputy Durkan speaking not of a weighting system but of those who are illegally removed from the register in their homeland?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Voting Rights of Citizens within EU: European Commission (11 Mar 2014)

Dominic Hannigan: Was that on the environmental committee?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Voting Rights of Citizens within EU: European Commission (11 Mar 2014)

Dominic Hannigan: I have no doubt we can return to that issue at a future meeting.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Voting Rights of Citizens within EU: European Commission (11 Mar 2014)

Dominic Hannigan: On the Deputy's suggestion, in addition to hearing his party's policy on this matter, as a committee we could invite a representative from each party to outline their thoughts in the space of five or ten minutes. We could have a meeting specifically to do that, if the committee thought it would be worthwhile.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Voting Rights of Citizens within EU: European Commission (11 Mar 2014)

Dominic Hannigan: It appears there is.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Voting Rights of Citizens within EU: European Commission (11 Mar 2014)

Dominic Hannigan: Let us do that. There are three parties represented here today. Each party might decide who the relevant person in their party would be, and if they give me their names I will invite them. It may be a member of the committee, a leader or whoever.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Voting Rights of Citizens within EU: European Commission (11 Mar 2014)

Dominic Hannigan: I thank Ms Nolan for that. The discussion has been very interesting and useful. We are having a number of meetings on this issue and a range of guests will appear before the committee, including, as the representatives will have heard, members of each of the political parties, and from this process we hope to issue our own conclusions, which we will pass to the representatives and to the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Voting Rights of Citizens within EU: European Commission (11 Mar 2014)

Dominic Hannigan: I propose we suspend briefly to allow the next guests to take their seats.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Introduction of euro to Lithuania: Lithuanian Ambassador (11 Mar 2014)

Dominic Hannigan: The meeting is now resumed. On behalf of the committee I welcome to the meeting H.E. Mr. Vidmantas Purlys, the Lithuanian ambassador to Ireland. On 1 January next year Lithuania is scheduled to become the 19th member of the eurozone, and while membership for Lithuania is not a foregone conclusion, its likely that joining the eurozone is an indication of the country's ongoing economic...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Introduction of euro to Lithuania: Lithuanian Ambassador (11 Mar 2014)

Dominic Hannigan: I invite the ambassador to outline his country's preparations for the euro.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Introduction of euro to Lithuania: Lithuanian Ambassador (11 Mar 2014)

Dominic Hannigan: I thank the ambassador. It is eight months since he last addressed our committee, and at that time it was to brief us on the forthcoming Presidency of the Council of the European Union. I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate the ambassador on what was a very successful Presidency, Lithuania's first.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Introduction of euro to Lithuania: Lithuanian Ambassador (11 Mar 2014)

Dominic Hannigan: I think much was achieved in the last six months of the year. One issue that was a priority for Lithuania was the Eastern Partnership and signing an agreement. For reasons we are all aware of, that did not quite work out, but I wonder if the ambassador could give us an outline of where he thinks things are at the moment. Lithuania will be the last of the three Baltic states to join the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Introduction of euro to Lithuania: Lithuanian Ambassador (11 Mar 2014)

Dominic Hannigan: I thank Mr. Purlys for his remarks on the Eastern Partnership and the euro. I have no doubt Lithuania will have a successful transition and we wish it well. I thank Mr. Purlys for coming before the committee and sharing his thoughts with us.

Government's Priorities for the Year Ahead: Statements (Resumed) (12 Mar 2014)

Dominic Hannigan: I welcome the opportunity to speak in this debate, on which the Opposition is making much hay. The Fianna Fáil leader, Deputy Martin, argued yesterday that the House is spending too much time discussing the Government's priorities. It is important to take time to discuss from where we have come in the past three years and where we will go in the next two years. The purpose of these...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: EU Solidarity Fund (12 Mar 2014)

Dominic Hannigan: 28. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if his Department and the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade consider there to be any prospect that Ireland might be able to access EU solidarity funding under the exceptional circumstances provision, in view of the fact that the country seems to be below the threshold but needs help and has just recently emerged...