Thomas Byrne (Fianna Fail)

Article 37 concerns a dispute resolution process within the treaty. It is comforting that the European Court of Justice has jurisdiction in that area. It is not as if the ESM can operate on its own and do what it likes.

Members of the Oireachtas have inviolability or potential inviolability with respect to their private papers according to the Constitution. We have immunity from suit in respect of what we say in this and the other Chamber. We have immunity from detention on and when travelling to and from the premises.