In accordance with Standing Order 90, the following message will be sent to the Dáil:
The Joint Committee on Justice and Equality has completed its consideration of the following motion:
That the proposal that Dáil Éireann approves the exercise by the State of the option or discretion under Protocol No. 21 on the position of the United Kingdom and Ireland in respect of the area of freedom, security and justice annexed to the Treaty on European Union and to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, to take part in the adoption and application of the following proposed measure:
Proposal for a Council Regulation on jurisdiction, the recognition and enforcement of decisions in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility, and on international child abduction (recast),
a copy of which was laid before Dáil Éireann on 27 July 2016.