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Seanad: Lisbon National Reform Programme: Statements. (26 Oct 2005)

Derek McDowell: I welcome the Minister. Senator Quinn summarised the Lisbon Agenda wonderfully when he said it was "motherhood and apple pie". It has always been that and in a sense it was designed to be that way. It was put together at a Council of the European Union comprising prime ministers of so many different political hues that to get them to agree to anything was difficult. We ended up with a faintly...

Seanad: Finance Bill (Certified Money Bill) 2004: Second Stage. (23 Mar 2004)

Derek McDowell: ...and development. In a somewhat different context, I read carefully a short time ago the Lisbon strategy documentation prepared in the context of our Presidency. There is an aspect of motherhood and apple pie in its talk of improvement of IT facilities throughout the European Union, and in R & D, and so on. Yet there is no doubt that R & D forms an important part of the strategy, and will...

Seanad: European Presidency: Statements. (29 Jan 2004)

Derek McDowell: ...referred to the Lisbon agenda as one of the priorities of the Presidency, to which no one can take particular exception. I have read the conclusions of the agenda and they have a motherhood and apple pie element to them. No one can object to improved e-commerce, information technology and more support for research and so forth. Ultimately, these matters need to be progressed by individual...