Róisín Garvey (Green Party) | Oireachtas source

It is good to have a debate but I find some of the arguments against the trade agreement quite simplistic and polarising. I am looking for a good debate on it but members are almost suggesting that we want to ratify this because we want big evil corporations to be able to sue our country and that we do not care about SMEs. It is way more nuanced than that. We should be able to have a proper intelligent debate in which we are challenged and in which questions are asked as opposed to using oversimplifications and negative insinuations that the Government wants to ratify the agreement because we are happy with our country being sued by evil corporations. If we are going to have a good debate, it should be based on some intelligent rhetoric as opposed to polarising, oversimplified arguments. I do not find it educational or informative in any way.