Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 September 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement: Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
It is very clear companies cannot sue for loss of profits so that is not correct. Companies can sue if they are discriminated against and would have to prove in the courts they have been discriminated against. Again, as I mentioned, companies suing governments and government agencies is not a new thing. Companies can do that already, and vice versa, but suing for loss of profits is not provided for in CETA. A company has to prove it has been discriminated against and has been treated unfairly or differently to the way a domestic company would have been treated.
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