Mr. Gerard Keown:

There has been contact at official level from the United States on this, under the previous Administration, to inquire about the intentions around this legislation at the time. Those contacts took place.

The Tánaiste has said, in a recent reply to a parliamentary question, that he has not had any recent engagement with political counterparts in the US on this issue. As I mentioned, a number of countries have expressed interest in it from different perspectives.