Arbitration (Amendment) Bill 2025: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Seanad Éireann — 2026-05-28
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Nessa Cosgrove (LAB), Labour Panel

I want to add that. It is beneath the Minister of State to say we are anti-EU. How can he say that? The Labour Party is pro-EU. We would not bring forward these amendments or spend hours debating this otherwise. The issue for us is also the investor courts. As Senator Stephenson said, other big players, including France and Italy, are not in favour of this and 98% of the trade under this agreement is already happening. We have seen how much trade has increased between our two countries. To say we are anti-EU is totally disingenuous and I would appreciate if the Minister of State were to withdraw his comment.

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