The programme for Government agreed following the 2024 general election commits to the ratification of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement, CETA, between the European Union and Canada and to supporting an ambitious EU trade agenda promoting new free trade agreements. This Bill and the ratification of CETA are wholly unnecessary for the promotion of tariff-free trade between Ireland and Canada or, indeed, between Ireland and Chile.
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Tellers: Tá, Senators Cathal Byrne and Paul Daly; Níl, Senators Alice-Mary Higgins and Patricia Stephenson.
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