Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I am not saying it is all the same. Where there is an international agreement or treaty, it is standard that there would be a mechanism for adjudicating disputes where they occur. We have the European treaties and, therefore, we have the ECJ and the European courts. We have international courts and when it comes to any international treaty or agreement, we tend to have some form of arbitration or mechanism to settle a dispute. In that sense, it is not something new or fundamentally different. I accept that the ICS is different from a national court but it is not fundamentally different to what exists under any number of international agreements or treaties where there is a court or a dispute resolution mechanism.