Mr. Fergal Goodman:

I am just saying that as of now, that is the alternative to the automatic process. Deputy Durkan spoke about the risk of us scurrying off and looking at many individual bilateral arrangements. We can scheme up what might be necessary. Senator Dolan adverted to a whole-of-Government approach and the fact that the Department of the Taoiseach is the lead organisation when it comes to policy and the Government's strategy on and approach to Brexit, and that that belongs within the whole-of-EU approach. We do not have licence to engage on some kind of bilateral basis. We can work up ideas as to what we might do if we end up moving into that space, but that is not what we have authority to do at the moment. I would imagine it is not the Government's policy across all sectors that we would break out and start to try to do things individually.