Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 20 June 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Ireland's Trade Relationship with Canada: Discussion
Dr. Deirdre Giblin:
Through the Chair, may we comment on that from an ICBA perspective for just a minute? Obviously, the Ireland Canada Business Association is a business association, so we are all about trade and will continue to advocate for CETA to be ratified in Ireland in a constitutional manner. We respect the institutions and the processes, the Supreme Court decision and what has come out from that, but I think we have demonstrated today a lot of the benefits that have come out of CETA. We do, however, respect the controversy around it and we look forward to how it plays its way through the system in the next while.