Should a national legislature such as the Seanad have the right to go to court to challenge an EU law as going too far in "Europeanising" an area of activity, thus breaching the protocol on subsidiarity originally negotiated in Amsterdam and now being carried forward? Should it have the right to do this independently of the Dáil? Should legislatures be involved in initiating legal actions at all? If this becomes the pattern, will it slow down the process of European legislation, perhaps to the disadvantage of smaller countries which may need European norms in a particular area to avoid having the norms of big states imposed upon them unilaterally? These are very important questions of striking a balance.