Mary O'Rourke (Fianna Fail)

I move:

That Seanad Éireann approves, in accordance with Article 29.4.6° of Bunreacht na hÉireann, the exercise by the State of the option, provided by Article 3 of the fourth Protocol set out in the Treaty of Amsterdam, to notify the President of the Council of the European Union that it wishes to take part in the adoption and application of the following proposed measure:

a proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and the Council on the law applicable to contractual obligations (Rome 1), copy of which proposed measure was laid before Seanad Éireann on 12 January 2006.