Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Today's discussion at this committee is extremely important and timely. The Tánaiste has answered some of the questions about the advisory opinion issued by the International Court of Justice in July and where we are today. I welcome those comments and the timeline given. Speaking of timelines, if it is in fact the next Dáil that deals with this Bill, with the EU and constitutional issues have been raised as a result of the Attorney General's legal advice, given the extent of the required changes to the Bill, is a timeline associated with that? Is there an estimated timeline to deal with those kinds of amendments? On the public policy exemption, I note from the Tánaiste's opening remarks that these grounds have never been used by a member state before in similar circumstances. Can the Tánaiste give any example of where these grounds have been used to give context to that? There is considerable public interest in this and, given the discussion here today and before I was a member of this committee, this Bill has been discussed at length. I would welcome the Tánaiste's comments on that.