Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)

The Deputy is not going to listen. I am saying that the figure for goods over the past six years was €600,000. The Minister is examining that aspect of it in terms of services. The Deputy knows as well that the legal ground here is extremely narrow anyway. I read the entirety of the Attorney General's opinion about this and it did not change fundamentally from the opinions of previous Attorneys General about trade competency being the exclusive competency of the EU. It was the arrival of the ICJ's advisory opinion that was key to revisiting this. Senator Black has been very co-operative. She and her advisers realised that the Bill as drafted by her would not have passed muster. Deputy O'Gorman must know that himself if he is honest.

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