Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The amendment specifies the criteria under which we decide whether an entity is a high-risk vendor. Part of that is the type of governmental system that is in place in the country where the vendor is located and the type of relationship between the vendor and the government of that country.

In other words, for example, is this country a democracy or not? Does it have an independent judiciary? Is the vendor controlled by an entity that is a central part of that State? Those are the kinds of criteria that are laid out in the legislation. If the State wishes to designate somebody as a high-risk vendor, they would have to show under those criteria, how they came to the conclusion, and then present this to the judge. The judge would then use that as a criteria to make an assessment.