Michael McDowell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

Can we take it then that the public policy relates to the origin of the goods and not their nature? That is the second point.

I understand Mr. Smyth's point that we do not have the regulatory platform that we do in relation to goods expressed in European law and regulation. Can I put the following proposition to him? It seems to me to be utterly devoid of common sense that Ireland could say, in relation to a service coming from Luxembourg, that it cannot come into Ireland or be supplied in Ireland - it could be assisted suicide or anything like that - on public policy grounds but that it is open to the EU to say to Morocco in an agreement that it can forget about Irish public policy and it can supply that exact same service to Ireland. Does that not strike Mr. Smyth as highly unlikely as an interpretation?