Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

To clarify, my recollection from reading the relevant European Union information is that there are at least scores of cases in countries. We are not talking about one or two in the entire country. From what I recall, there were over 70 cases some years ago in Portugal. We do not have an Irish precedent but there are precedents across the EU that can be compared, in some sense, to what is happening here. There seems to be a reticence in Ireland to go down that route whereas other countries do not seem to have a problem doing that. They do not seem to have any problem getting the designation either.