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

Photo of Leo VaradkarLeo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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-----and would presumably have to be determined by the Supreme Court. The second question is whether there would have to be compensation in those circumstances. Any company could argue that case, not just a Canadian company such as IRES REIT. Any company could argue in such a scenario that that represents confiscation or expropriation and that case would have to be heard. Whether the company is Canadian or not is not the point.