Seanad debates

Wednesday, 16 October 2002

European Union (Scrutiny) Bill, 2001 changed from European Union Bill, 2001: Second Stage.

 

The Joint Committee on European Affairs will certainly be the most important committee of this House if what is contained in this Bill is to work. However, there is a challenge for us in ensuring it will have sufficient resources to do its work. Given that it has so many items of information before it since 1 July, it would almost need to meet on a daily basis over a 12 month period if it were to scrutinise all the documentation. Let us insist that we will meet the requirements of the committee, both in terms of staffing and membership. I understand there is already a sub-committee of the Joint Committee on European Affairs attempting to sift through the various proposals.

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