Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

This is an obligation of membership of the European Union. No doubt when Mr. Fitzgerald states this will damage the pearl mussel, it is significant - one of the requirements is it must be significant. Then the decision maker has virtually no choice. Europe probably says it is an Irish law but it never says the Irish law was made with a knife in their back where they were told to walk. This is the situation here. The law says one thing and if Mr. Fitzgerald says it is significant, then the decision maker really has no choice. Is that not it, in simple English? It is common sense.