Mr. Liam Herrick:

Our colleagues in the ICCL have done quite a bit of work on this question, but yes. It is also a question of how technologies have been developed and trained, for example, in other jurisdictions. If we are consistent in adopting a business and human rights approach, looking at the human rights dimensions of how commercial products have been developed and ethical concerns about the equality and human rights processes in another part of the world whereby people might have been negatively impacted in the development of commercial products, then the European Union should not use them.

Deputy Geoghegan is absolutely right. We have a strong ethical framework here and we should not abandon that.