I am answering Deputy Boyd Barrett.

It is not nonsense.

I am sorry, Deputy; you have a view. You are anti-trade and anti-enterprise. That is your position. Deputy Boyd Barrett made his comments in terms of his preferred trade and trade that is of mutual interest. We never hear ringing declarations, however. Let us be honest. Deputy Paul Murphy should be honest. His political philosophy does not believe in a capitalist system.

I believe in a social democratic system-----

-----which is what we have in this country. We have much State ownership in this country. We own the railways. We own the water supply, unlike our neighbours, and so on.

You guys do not believe in any enterprise at all. You ideologically do not believe in it, which is your entitlement.

That is where you are coming from in respect of CETA and other trade agreements. You should be honest about it.

That is where you are coming from.

The point is that the Supreme Court clarified what can be done here. Given where this country is coming from and the need to continue to create employment, we must be open and proactive with regard to accessing fair and accessible markets in terms of growing jobs in this country. I do not believe that is Deputy Boyd Barrett's position. He has an ideological perspective, which is his entitlement.

The Deputy should be honest about it and call it out. In the future, the Japanese and Singaporean agreements will have dispute resolution mechanisms. That will be a feature. There are protections we can build in. One of ours is that we have a written Constitution. We are also members of the European Union treaty. Europe is going Fit for 55. It is not entering into trade agreements to undermine its own policies on the environment-----

-----which are very strict policies. Let us get a bit real about all of this too.

Deputy Paul Murphy talked about the corporate sustainability directive. That has not passed. There is always-----

I am sorry. There is always engagement between governments regarding a range of issues in terms of any directive. No one is passive when a directive is being negotiated at European level.

I am just making a point to you.

We do not lobby. We are members of the European Union.

As a country, we have an entitlement----

-----to seek amendments and give opinions and views-----

---as a directive is being debated.

I am doing it through the Chair but I am being interrupted all the time. That is fine too; I take it on the chin.

Deputy Bacik raised the issue of water quality monitoring. I endorse what she said about some very imaginative advertisements around water safety. Her view is that we need to do more in terms of water quality monitoring. That is improving now. It is going to enhance for swimmers, in particular the quality of water in their bays. I read Mr. Mark Henry's chapter on this. There has been a dramatic improvement over 20 or 30 years in water quality. The lesson is that we could do more faster in the current era to get mor…