Noel Treacy (Galway East, Fianna Fail)

Following the judgments, a significant degree of analysis was carried out by the Office of the Attorney General and by all Departments involved in the transposition of European Community legislation. This issue affects every Department, in accordance with the importance of Europe to our economy and society and the range of our European obligations. The Attorney General advised at the end of this consultative process that new legislation was needed to fill the gap created by the two Supreme Court decisions.

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