Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

That is really helpful. If we enact this Bill, it is likely that Ireland will face infringement proceedings. We would have to defend it and would probably use Article 36 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union and the reference to public policy therein. The witnesses have said that the public policy ground is interpreted very narrowly by the Court of Justice. Is there a risk that by passing a Bill that only restricts trade in goods with the occupied territories and does not restrict trade in services, when we know the value of that trade in goods is low and the value of trade in services is unquantifiable, as we have discussed, we actually undermine our own argument that this Bill represents a manifestation of Ireland's public policy? Are we damaging that argument if we pass a Bill that has a massive hole in it, that only bans trade in goods but not in services?