Mr. Gerry Liston:

It was mentioned yesterday that if the Bill were enacted, including services, and then challenged, and the European Court of Justice, in a worst-case scenario, was to find that services were not within public policy and we did not have competence to enact a unilateral ban on services, the State would then be given an opportunity to amend the legislation. It was suggested yesterday that legislation would be required to make that amendment but the European Communities Act specifically provides for a statutory instrument to be made by governments, which could be done in a day, to excise from the Act the-----