Seanad debates

Thursday, 10 October 2002

Address by President of the European Parliament.

 

I think I softened the cough of the Aer Rianta man but I do not know which way he will jump. Several Senators touched on the question of the directives that get us down. I will approach it in two ways, one by the way. I am not naive. There are things we will like or lump about any negotiated order. It is in our nature. In this House there are things Senators like or lump about how the House proceeds, let alone wider public policy. I insist, however, that we cannot cop out and say they did it to us. We are there from the moment a directive is drafted. There is no point in pretending a faceless individual in Brussels sent a habitats directive to Ireland through perversity. The Government was there from the beginning. It went through the European Parliament.

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