John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

If I understand correctly when talking about how we have already done this in the case of Ukraine and Russia, that was the EU making the decision. Is that correct? Yes. Going back to the officials yesterday, that would be part of what they would see as the twin-track approach, namely, that this is exclusively a competence of the EU so the banning referred to in the case of Russia and Ukraine was done under that exclusive EU competence, as the officials would see it. They would say this is not a comparison.