Mr. Gerry Liston:

Sure. Yesterday, we heard that the position of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade is that there is a clear obligation under international law, as set out in the advisory opinion, to ban goods and services, and then that there is an obstacle under EU law in relation to services. Actually, to put it as generously as is reasonably possible from the perspective of the Department, there is a degree of complexity in relation to the question of services. While there is this explicit basis for goods, that same explicit basis in public policy is not there for services. Next week, however, the committee will hear from Professor Takis Tridimas and Professor Panos Koutrakos, who will outline that there is, at the very least, an eminently arguable basis within EU law to ban services on public policy grounds, even though it is not there as explicitly as in relation to goods.