Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that, but the Minister was not the Minister for Justice eight years ago. The European Commission was not the same eight years ago. The State perhaps, although it was constitutionally a different Government, had a particular position, but it is not the appropriate approach or a logical or sensible approach to simply assume that we have been working together all this time so we will carry on that way, rather than giving each proposal individual consideration. Surely that should have been the approach.