Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South-Central, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Yes, I will follow up on the question I asked Mr. Liston a short time ago before we ran out of time. The application of international law is binding on Ireland as a member state. There was some attempt to confuse the matter by talking about how European countries pool their obligations and so on. The Department also spoke about "empowering legislation", I think that was the phrase used. I do not think the transcripts of the committee meetings go up quickly enough but I think it is empowering legislation that exists as a grounding in goods. As Mr. Liston understands the law, is such a thing necessary to provide a public policy exemption basis for legislation such as we are talking about? Why would that be important at all. I suspect it is not. Will Mr. Liston expand on that? That seems to be the part the Department is hanging the argument on that in one area there is empowering legislation and in another there is now. Will Mr. Liston comment on that or rebut that maybe?