Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The current draft legislation, as I have long previewed, will be in goods but from a policy point of view I am not against including services. What I need to do is tease through the legality of that. We have very good people who do a very good job on that in the Department, for which I thank them. As they work through this, the present general scheme, and I say this to be helpful in advance of the committee’s deliberation, rests on the public policy exception set out in Article 24 of Regulation (EU) 215/478 on common rule for imports. We have a legal view that there is a pathway forward on goods there that may not be there on services. However, I have officially asked the Attorney General to see if it is possible to do services as well.