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

The false impression being created, and I see this in the emails that I and other Deputies receive, is that ratifying CETA will for the first time, somehow, allow Canadian and other foreign companies to sue the State and State agencies for discrimination. As the Deputy pointed out, however, that happens all the time. There are hundreds of thousands of cases, so there is no change in that regard. In addition, the argument being made and the idea being created is that, somehow, an ICS is something new and that this is a new departure; it is not. Many of these mechanisms exist and are in operation.