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Future EU-UK Financial services talks will be ‘difficult’ – Kelleher

Talks on how UK Financial Services are going to be able to do business with the EU market in the future will be difficult.  

So says Fianna Fail MEP Billy Kelleher.

MEPs are currently scrutinising the EU-UK Trade deal which was brokered on Christmas Eve. They’re expected to vote on it in March.

However, the agreement doesn’t include details on how the UK will be able to access EU financial markets. Both sides are due to discuss future financial services arrangements within the coming months.  

But according to Billy Kelleher those discussions will not be easy.

Out words: of concern

Dur: 00:35

MEPs expected to ratify Brexit trade deal in March – Fitzgerald

The European Parliament is expected to vote in March on the EU-UK Trade deal that was brokered on Christmas Eve.

That’s according to Fine Gael MEP for Dublin Frances Fitzgerald.

At the moment MEPs are scrutinising the deal that’s over twelve hundred pages. They need to ratify the agreement for it to be fully implemented.

Here’s Frances Fitzgerald.

Out words: the implementation

Dur: 00:33

“Rockall is a rock” with no jurisdiction rights – Markey

Fine Gael MEP Colm Markey says the Scottish patrol boat that recently blocked a Donegal fishing vessel from entering waters around Rockall, had no right to do so.

The skipper of the Northern Celt was told on Monday they couldn’t fish within twelve nautical miles of the North Atlantic outcrop because of the recent EU-UK trade deal.

Colm Markey is arguing the Scottish didn’t have a right to make those instructions.

Out words: over it

Dur: 00:31

Ireland needs to get sizeable chunk of €5bn EU Brexit fund – MacManus

Sinn Fein MEP Chris MacManus is calling on the government to ensure it secures a sizeable chunk of the EU Brexit adjustment fund.

The Midlands North-West MEP says Irish fishing industries will be hugely impacted by the EU-UK Trade deal.

He's arguing they need to be properly compensated from the five billion euro (5bn) fund that’s been set up to compensate sectors worst affected by the UK’s departure from the EU.  

Out words: of funding

Dur: 00:42

EU Vigilance of UK needed on Trade deal – MacManus

MEPs in the European Parliament are scrutinising the EU-UK trade deal that was brokered on Christmas eve.

They have to ratify the agreement for it to be fully implemented. But so far no date has been confirmed for a European Parliament vote on it.

Sinn Fein MEP for the Midlands North-West Constituency, Chris MacManus says the EU will have to be continually vigilant to ensure the UK adheres to the deal over the coming years.

Out words: the agreement

Dur:  00:31

Irish fishing industries must get access to EU Brexit fund – Kelleher

Fishing industries in Ireland should benefit from the EU Brexit adjustment fund because they’ll be so negatively impacted by the UK’s exit from the EU.

So says Fianna Fail MEP Billy Kelleher.

The five billion euro (€5 billion) fund is to be made available to sectors most effected by Brexit.

The new EU-UK trade deal will see a twenty five percent decline in EU fishing rights in UK waters over the next five and a half years.  

Here’s Billy Kelleher.

Out words: the agreement

Dur: 00:25

Irish citizens will be able “to travel at will” between Ireland and UK – Cuffe

Britain’s exit from the Brexit transition period will put an end to the free movement of people from the UK into the EU. UK citizens will no longer have the freedom to work, study, start a business or live in the bloc.

They will need visas for long-term stays in an EU country.

But the UK will also restrict the movement of EU citizens into its territory.

However, Ciarán Cuffe Green Party MEP for Dublin, says Irish citizens shouldn’t  be affected by these new restrictions.

Our words: until now

Dur: 00:24

Red tape and costs ahead with EU-UK Trade deal – Andrews

EU Ambassadors yesterday (Monday) approved the EU-UK trade and cooperation agreement paving the way for it to take provisional effect on January 1^st.

However, the European Parliament still has to vote on the agreement. And MEPs are insisting they be given enough time to scrutinise the deal before they do so.  

Although the Agreement will mean zero tariffs and quotas between both sides customs checks and controls will apply to UK exports entering the EU.

Barry Andrews – Fianna Fail MEP for Dublin – explains what it will mean for EU businesses that trade with the UK.

Out words: about it

Dur: 00:47

Irish fishers will have to get ‘fair share’ of fishing quotas – O’Sullivan

The future conservation of fishing stocks and preservation of species will have to be well managed when it comes to negotiating future fishing quotas with the UK.

That’s the warning from Green MEP Grace O’Sullivan who was commenting on the EU-UK Trade deal that was struck on Christmas Eve.

The deal will see twenty five percent (25%) of EU boats’ fishing rights in UK waters transferred to UK fishing fleets over a transition period of five and a half years.

After that period, annual negotiations on fishing quotas for both sides will be worked out between them. 

Some Irish fishers have expressed their dismay at the Brexit deal which will see a decline in the quotas of fish they will be able to catch in UK waters in the future.  

Here’s Grace O’Sullivan.

Out words: in Ireland

Dur: 00:28

Willingness of European Parliament to pass Brexit deal – O’Sullivan

The leaders of the political groups in the European Parliament will meet this morning (10:00am CET) to discuss the outcome of the EU-UK Brexit trade deal.

The deal will need to be approved by both the European Parliament and the EU’s twenty seven (27) member countries.

Green Party MEP Grace O’Sullivan says MEPs must be given enough time to scrutinise the trade agreement before voting on it.

The Parliament had originally hoped to vote on the deal before the end of this year. But it wasn’t brokered in time for that to happen.

Now they’ll have to vote on it early next year instead.  

Here’s Grace O’Sullivan.

Out words: wide open

Dur: 00:30