Mr. Edmund Honohan:

No, I am not. The 1993 directive was passed into Irish law as a regulation in 1995. Again, that was after two years. Since then, it was incorporated into the Consumer Rights Act 2022. The regulation was more or less cut and pasted into that legislation. I am not saying there was anything wrong with the way the Oireachtas dealt with it at the time. We are now 30 years down the road. There can be instances where the Oireachtas can be only too prepared to accept a draft transposition and a draft statutory instrument. This instance we are looking at today is one where the Oireachtas is not even going to be given a chance to look at it.

Another funny story is that I remember once when I got into trouble because I wrote to the Chair of the EU committee here and pointed out the committee was not doing the subsidiarity test that was supposed to be applied to all EU legislation to see if it was going too far, and that we should have been retaining anything we could handle ourselves. The committee was not interested in that and wrote to the Chief Justice and complained about me. I did not get any satisfaction anyway.