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Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Ms Gina McIntyre (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank the witnesses for their attendance. This is one of the key issues in respect of the PEACE IV funding. What we are looking for is the precedent of the Norway-Sweden model, particularly a list of those funding schemes involving EU and non-EU members, which we can include in our submission. We will continue with the PEACE funding and the Government is making a strong case on that. We...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Ms Gina McIntyre (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: Therein lies the rub.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Ms Gina McIntyre (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: We are looking for solutions. A draft proposal contained in a report on Brexit by the Joint Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement, of which I am a member, is that all current and future EU programmes, in the absence of an agreement in the alternative, would be funded by Her Majesty's Treasury. While that is also what Ms McIntyre is talking about, in that instance we...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Ms Gina McIntyre (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: It is hard to break this down because it is multi-annual but in terms of INTERREG, how much would the British Treasury have to give to continue to fund INTERREG post Brexit? Is the witness able to calculate that figure?

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Ms Gina McIntyre (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: How did it work historically? For example, how did it work during INTERREG from 2007 to 2013?

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Ms Gina McIntyre (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: The funding issue is very important and will be a core part of the discussions. The EU have said that Ireland must be sorted. It would be very helpful if, in the historic example of the previous funding programme broken down on the 60:40 basis, we could arrive at a figure. This would enable us to say that were this programme replicated post Brexit, this is what the cost would be to the...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Professor Christopher McCrudden (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: I would like to raise the issue of EEA+ status in respect of Northern Ireland. Theresa May has ruled it out in seeming to opt for the hard Brexit option. I take the point that resistance to that idea would probably come from London rather than from Brussels, although I am not too sure how excited Brussels would be about it, either. It would set a precedent for part of the country remaining...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Professor Christopher McCrudden (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: The European Union does not want anybody in the UK to win.

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Professor Christopher McCrudden (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: With regard to the EEA+ issue, has any economic analysis been done with respect to practicalities and current legal challenges? Is it possible that the economic analysis could be "gamed out" and Belfast wins, with the financial houses of London not having to go to Frankfurt and Paris but instead setting up a brass plate company in Belfast before being good to go? We have been asked to put...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Professor Christopher McCrudden (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: The physical movement of goods is one issue. That is why we are teasing it out. We are doing this as we are talking. If EEA+ is not a runner because of the benefits for brass plate companies establishing in Belfast - I am talking about financial houses or insurance companies - what is the next best thing in the real world? That is probably not possible. If we scale back, EEA+ would be...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with Professor Christopher McCrudden (25 May 2017)

Mark Daly: The point is interesting. We can go through key areas like policing and justice and there can certainly be an argument made for whatever EEA arrangements are there. Senator McDowell would know about extradition and how the European arrest warrant would solve the problem. A hard Brexit brings a special problem relating to the peace process in that regard. Tourism is a cross-Border and...

Seanad: Controlled Drugs and Harm Reduction Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (31 May 2017)

Mark Daly: I thank Senators Ruane and Ó Ríordáin for bringing this Bill forward. It is correct to say that the war on drugs has not worked. It has turned into a war on poor people. It is a war on the sick. When one sees that we have the third highest overdose rate in Europe, it shows that our systems are failing in all respects. When one sees 679 people dying from overdoses, which is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Implications of Brexit for the Environment: Discussion (1 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: I support the proposal of the Chairman that submissions be made to the Seanad select committee. I am a member of it and that is why I had to leave. We are dealing with Brexit today in the Seanad. If the delegates are making a submission, we are looking for solutions and precedents. If there is a hard border and a hard Brexit, will Northern Ireland continue within the European Economic...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement on Energy Matters (1 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: I apologise for having to leave. I had to do a radio interview. I thank the delegates for coming. If they have answered the following questions already, I will read the replies in the Official Report. They may have already outlined the costs associated with the Celtic interconnector. Is there a precedent for having such interconnectors, for example, in Cyprus or Greece? Is there an...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement on Energy Matters (1 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: The witnesses may have answered this already, but are there precedents in non-EEA European countries? This is a very important part of the role of this committee. We have been asked to come up with the solutions and it is very easy to come up with solutions when one can point to a precedent. Is there anything in Cyprus or Greece to which we can point where there are networks going across...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement on Energy Matters (1 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: For example-----

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement on Energy Matters (1 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: What is the timeline on the French interconnector in the best-case scenario?

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement on Energy Matters (1 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: Everything else is coming through the UK. It is the issue of the transfer-----

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement on Energy Matters (1 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: It is not like the Polish precedent where it is going from Poland to a third country. Our problem is that it is coming from Europe to a third country and then to us, so that is the precedent we are looking for. What is the agreement we need to have in place for it to traverse that country? We are all talking about worse-case scenarios here. As we keep being told that no deal is better...

Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union: Engagement with European Movement Ireland (1 Jun 2017)

Mark Daly: How does the number of our officials in Europe compare with that of other countries such as Denmark? This committee will need to benchmark its recommendations to upscale against other countries. In more than 90% of decisions made in Europe, we and Britain would have voted the same way because our interests were often combined. We obviously will need to stop riding on Britain's coat tails....