Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements
Dail Éireann — 2025-07-15
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

I am amazed and somewhat shocked at the orientation and nature of the Opposition's presentations, particularly in terms of CETA.
Someone said these are legitimate questions about the investor courts. The investor courts were dealt with through the European court judgment and will be dealt with in terms of the legislation. All trade agreements have to have a mediating facility and mechanism. Deputy O'Rourke stated that these are legitimate concerns in the context of fossil fuels and so on, but not one of the Deputies opposite mentioned - Deputies Ó Cearúil and Byrne did - that there are 15,000 people employed by Canadian companies. Does that matter to them? It does not matter to any of them. This is almost economic illiteracy. That exports do not matter-----

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Sitting date: 2025-07-15