Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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On the first page of IBEC's submission, it states "these issues have now been resolved, and the pace has picked up considerably across Europe with the new court on track to open its doors in early 2023, with or without Ireland.". To a certain extent, while the subsequent part of the submission does not suggest so, the above suggests that the boat has sailed on this anyway and that things are moving much faster than the State would be capable of catching up with, given all of the constraints in the way of the referendum and everything else. Referendums do not happen quickly. They are not easy and they are expensive. The likelihood is that any Government would want to wait until there were several together. The timetable that is suggested here is one that seems to be moving an awful lot faster than we would be capable of catching up with. Does Mr. Gaffney think there is scope for us to catch up? He has said it is gathering pace. I know this issue has been kicking about for a while. From the limited amount of research I have done, it seems that it goes very fast and then very slowly and so forth. If it is in a very fast phase now, will we not be outpaced?