Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I accept that the Deputy is an internationalist but there are different ways in which people define themselves when they use the term "internationalist". While I do not know about the Deputy, her party has certainly voted and campaigned against every single EU treaty, including the Single European Act, the Maastricht treaty, the Lisbon treaty and the fiscal treaty. To me, the European Union and European integration comprise one of the greatest acts of internationalism in recent history. Being against those would not be internationalist. This is not the only trade treaty the Deputy is opposed to so I do not believe it is just down to the investor court system. I believe there is a wider philosophical objection to multilateralism at play. The investor court system is just the one that is arising at the moment.

On risk analysis, I appreciate the Deputy is pressing me on this question. She is asking it time and again, which is fine, but I cannot really give a different answer. We do not have a difficulty in writing up what I have mentioned as a risk analysis but our view is that the risk is minimal to zero, precisely because we would have to identify potential cases that would be successful in an investor court system but not in the national courts. We just do not see-----