11 Nov 2013, 11:38
Barbara Nolan, head of the European Commission's Dublin Office, is before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on European Union Affairs tomorrow to discuss the Commission's work programme for next year.
11 November 2013
The Commission’s work programme was announced last month and identifies a series of priorities for 2014 aimed at boosting growth EU-wide.
Chairman of the Committee Dominic Hannigan TD says: “Tomorrow’s meeting with Barbara Nolan is a valuable opportunity to assess the Commission’s priorities next year. The Commission’s stated intention is to make 2014 a year of delivery and implementation. As a result, the programme focusses on the finalising banking union, progressing the single digital market and ensuring that new measures set out in the EU’s long term budget from 2014 to 2020 become operational. With a number of proposals within that budget targeted specifically at combatting youth unemployment, the Committee will be particularly keen to assess how job creation initiatives for Europe’s young citizens can be realised.
“The Commission’s work programme is an important document, with implications for our political and administrative systems. Oireachtas Committees are playing an ever more important role in oversight of the national impact of EU proposals in their respective areas of work. The outcomes from tomorrow’s meeting will inform the work of both our Committee and the Oireachtas sectoral Committees in the coming year”
The meeting takes place tomorrow Tuesday 12 November at 2 pm in Committee Room 1, Leinster House 2000. Committee proceedings will be followed here.
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Committee Membership
Deputies: Eric Byrne, Seán Crowe, Timmy Dooley, Bernard J. Durkan, John Halligan, Dominic Hannigan (Chair), Seán Kyne, Dara Murphy (Vice-Chair) and Joe O’Reilly
Senators: Colm Burke, Terry Leyden, Marie Maloney, Catherine Noone and Kathryn Reilly