EU Enlargement
Dail Éireann — 2024-01-25
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Richard Bruton (FG), Dublin Bay North

I thank the Tánaiste and I welcome the Government's position on this. On a matter of clarification, when the Tánaiste mentioned the conventional requirements of membership will apply is it expected that in a wartime society, which is the reality in Ukraine, the same standards will apply or will the system make some allowance for the challenges of that environment? Where is it envisaged that there would be change in the institutional arrangement to meet the fact there will be a much larger membership, will all the changes being envisaged be within the existing treaties?

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Sitting date: 2024-01-25