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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Possible Exit of UK from European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Feb 2015)
Dominic Hannigan: Our next contributor is Ms Siobhán Mullally, who is a professor of law and director of the Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights at UCC.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Possible Exit of UK from European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Feb 2015)
Dominic Hannigan: The next speaker is Alan Matthews, professor of European agricultural policy at the Department of Economics at Trinity College.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Possible Exit of UK from European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Feb 2015)
Dominic Hannigan: Thank you, Professor Matthews. We will now hear from Mr. Steve Aiken.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Possible Exit of UK from European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Feb 2015)
Dominic Hannigan: I thank Mr. Aiken. He stated that a referendum would happen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Possible Exit of UK from European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Feb 2015)
Dominic Hannigan: Will it happen regardless of the election or is he predicting the election's outcome?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Possible Exit of UK from European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Feb 2015)
Dominic Hannigan: Before returning to our speakers I wish to comment on the likelihood of a referendum. My understanding, from speaking to my colleagues in the Labour Party in the UK, is that their leader, Ed Miliband, has faced down calls from within his party for a referendum. I would have thought it would be unlikely, should the Labour Party get into government, that we would see a referendum. It is an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Possible Exit of UK from European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Feb 2015)
Dominic Hannigan: Let us look at the speech David Cameron made at the Bloomberg headquarters in January 2013. On that occasion, he identified a number of issues on which he would like to see reform in Europe, as well as many other things. I think there were five in all. These included the implementation of the Single Market, on which he will not find any disagreement here; competitiveness; the issue of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Possible Exit of UK from European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Feb 2015)
Dominic Hannigan: I suggest we start off again with Mr. O'Ceallaigh and work our way around. I ask witnesses to answer as many questions as they can, and if they want to make any concluding remarks at the same time they may do so.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Possible Exit of UK from European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Feb 2015)
Dominic Hannigan: We are outside Schengen at present.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Possible Exit of UK from European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (17 Feb 2015)
Dominic Hannigan: On behalf of the committee, I thank all of our guests for attending today's meeting and for giving of their time. The committee will have further discussions on this issue at its meeting next Tuesday.
- Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Postal Voting (24 Feb 2015)
Dominic Hannigan: 566. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government his plans to reform the postal voting application system before the date of the next referendum to allow for more categories of reasons to apply for and receive a postal vote; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8411/15]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Possible Exit of UK from European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2015)
Dominic Hannigan: I remind people to turn off their mobile telephones. It is not sufficient to put them on silent mode. They need to be turned off because they could cause problems with the broadcasting equipment. As people will know, the committee is carrying out a series of meetings in regard to what would happen to Ireland in the event of a British exit from the European Union. Prime Minister Cameron...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Possible Exit of UK from European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2015)
Dominic Hannigan: What is that in absolute numbers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Possible Exit of UK from European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2015)
Dominic Hannigan: Cod wars.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Possible Exit of UK from European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2015)
Dominic Hannigan: Commissioners are there to fight Europe's corner, not the corner of any particular country.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Possible Exit of UK from European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2015)
Dominic Hannigan: Deputy Eric Byrne has posed a number of questions. I remind members that we are operating under time constraints. If they could, therefore, limit their contributions to three minutes, it would be appreciated.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Possible Exit of UK from European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2015)
Dominic Hannigan: We will take questions from one other member before asking Mr. Joe Durkan to reply. I call Deputy Keating.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Possible Exit of UK from European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2015)
Dominic Hannigan: However, the leader, Ed Miliband, MP, has said his party in government will not hold a referendum. That is the official policy. Of course, every party includes members who are sceptical.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Possible Exit of UK from European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2015)
Dominic Hannigan: I thank Deputy Crowe. I wish to ask a question that has not yet been asked, namely, in relation to the financial transaction tax, the Robin Hood tax, the total tax. Mr. Durkan mentioned in his evidence that he expects the City of London to get more peripheral if the UK pulls out of the European Union. One of the reasons Ireland was not one of the original 12 or so countries that signed up...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs: Possible Exit of UK from European Union: Discussion (Resumed) (24 Feb 2015)
Dominic Hannigan: Historically, in the three-month lead-up to a general election investment does drop off because of the uncertainty.