In 2022, the Supreme Court found that the ratification of CETA would detract from the jurisdiction of the Irish courts, contrary to the Constitution, because a judgment at the CETA tribunal would be made virtually automatically enforceable in the High Court and the High Court would have no power to refuse enforcement, even where the award fundamentally compromised the Irish Constitution or EU law. They are basing it on something that is not only not in the text of CETA and the various documents and court decisions surrounding it, but the very opposite of what they are saying is written in black and white in CETA, the interpretative instrument and court decisions, including our own Supreme Court decisions.
Key terms by TF-IDF across 11,785 words from 12 speakers. The summary quotes the highest-scoring sentences verbatim — nothing is paraphrased.
Tellers: Tá, Senators Cathal Byrne and Paul Daly; Níl, Senators Patricia Stephenson and Alice-Mary Higgins.
| Question | Result | Tá–Níl |
|---|---|---|
| Amendment put: | Lost | 12–25 |
| Question put: "That the Order of Business be agreed to". | Carried | 26–12 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 12–21 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 12–20 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 12–21 |
Party shown is the one each member held on 2026-05-28, frozen by a dated join — not their party today. The Oireachtas API publishes no date of birth and returns an empty gender field for every member in this period, so no age or gender breakdown is shown.