Denis Landy (Labour) | Oireachtas source

I would like to thank Ms Childers for her very honest response. I realise there were a lot of questions to be answered, but perhaps she will give a little time to one I raised concerning the willingness of the Irish State to transpose legislation into Irish law, sometimes to the detriment of our economy and sometimes creating a disadvantage for Ireland against other EU states. I discovered during my hurling days in Brussels that other member states just left some of this legislation on the shelf and carried on regardless.

We were the good boys in the class and we suffered economically. Would Ms Childers like to comment on this? Is it just a view I have picked up which is not fair or would she have seen it from a broader perspective?