Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 November 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation
Ireland-Canada Trade Relations: Discussion
Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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Does the Minister of State agree that this increase in growth, as he describes it, which I do not dispute, is happening without the investor court section of CETA being enacted? It is not a necessary portion of it. The trade is increasing. The figures that the Minister of State has outlined are proof that it is going in the right direction, which is good. Other countries are leaving the investor court system for all the reasons, and for the millions of taxpayers' euro. The increase in exports is happening without the investor court system. I would have thought it is not a requirement.