Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

This seems to be important. It is being asserted that we are receiving solemn assurances from a sovereign state, namely, the United States. We should not be, but we do. It is a high level assurance. Now we are referring to assurances from private companies. Would we accept such assurances in any other arena without performing checks to ensure compliance?