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

When the court looks at the interpretation, as in the UK case about the minting of coins or the L'Église de scientologie case, it speaks of public policy regarding "the fundamental interests of the State".

I believe that was what was said in the minting case and again in the L'Église de scientologie case about a sufficiently serious threat to a fundamental interest of society. We have to demonstrate that the legislation we are passing actually manifests that. Where a state puts forward a Bill that has clear inconsistency in terms of banning trade in one part of trade as in good but not services, is that something the International Court of Justice is likely to look at and say that Ireland's public policy on this is not so strong because we are omitting such a large part of trade in our restriction?