Seanad debates
Thursday, 6 November 2003
European Communities (Amendment) Bill 2003: Second Stage.
We discussed this issue at the Joint Committee on European Affairs. In that forum I referred to a colleague of mine who was taking his wife to Barcelona for the weekend. He gave the credit for being able to do this to Europe. He said he could not have done it without the deregulation which came when Peter Sutherland was in Brussels. Whether it was Peter Sutherland, the former Deputy, the late Jim Mitchell, or Michael O'Leary who created cheap airlines, this man gave the credit to the European Union. This is the type of detail to which we need to draw attention. The Government has a special role to play in this regard.
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