Joe O'Reilly (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It will not be achieved here. Mr. Smyth has answered that question.

Mr. Smyth made the obvious point that trade was the exclusive competence of the EU and that it was only in very limited circumstances where that could be breached, as it were. I will come to the ICJ, which Mr. Smyth talked about, but will he please elaborate in layman's terms on the limited conditions that we can breach or where we can go on an independent exercise on trade in any instance?