Mr. Paul Joyce:

On Deputy O'Callaghan's point about the cost to the State, a good illustration of that is the equal treatment social welfare arrears case where, ultimately, after several cases and a number of plaintiffs, the State ended up paying out a total of £300 million in costs and redress for 69,000 women. If there had been an acceptance by the State that it was in breach of the terms of the directive in the first place, that cost would have been prevented.