Seanad debates

Wednesday, 16 October 2002

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

 

Resources are very important. The institutions of the European Union are a model of openness in many respects compared to what we have here. One can walk in off the street into the European Parliament and sit down to listen to any of its committees. Pretty much everything is out in the open. One of our problems is that we have a way of doing things which we inherited from the mother of Parliaments and we have never looked beyond our nearest island to see that there are other models and ways to work. The consensus model is much more common in European politics than the adversarial model we are accustomed to.

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