Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 November 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Session 1: The Evidence
Ms Carole Cadwalladr:
Mr. Packalén is correct. There are multiple very complex issues but there are also some simple, straightforward issues. A foreign company played a central role in all of the representatives' elections and is unaccountable to any of their parliaments. It is wrong to consider it in any way a political issue. In the context of the national security of countries, this foreign company is playing an absolutely pivotal role. Politicians have no idea what role it plays in their elections and it is beyond the reach of any of their laws. That is completely unacceptable and profoundly worrying.
Politicians have the power. All of us are helpless and powerless in the face of such massive companies but politicians have come together, as a collective body of 12 parliaments, and have the ability to make a stand and say it is unacceptable, which I hope they do.
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