Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will not even take the three minutes. I will just make two points. On the question of SMEs, Canada is one of the target markets for Enterprise Ireland, the support agency for SMEs. I was on trade missions to Canada with small and large producers in the whiskey and food sectors. These are the backbone of the SME sector and they were trading and looking to use this agreement. What people are also missing is that these trade agreements also bring benefits to workers. When countries are recalcitrant about providing workers' rights or environmental rights, these agreements provide an instrument through which those rights can be enforced. It is all on the downside but these agreements bring benefits for workers and environmental standards and that needs to be recorded.