Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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We have outlined substantive amendments that have to happen to strengthen this Bill to make sure it can be robust against any challenge to it. Someone asked earlier if there was a similar case. I did not get a chance to respond to Deputy Devlin's point. The Attorney General has alerted us to a case involving France related to the differentiation of goods in the western Sahara and that dispute there. France lost that case. The case precedent in this is conservative, just to make that clear. It is not exactly similar. Mr. Smyth may want to comment on that. It is useful. This idea that we can ram this through in two days, in all fairness to everybody, is not realistic. That may be why Deputy Carthy took exception when I said that was politics.