Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 September 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food
Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
2:00 am
Ms Sinéad McPhillips:
The Canadian deal, CETA, that we referred to earlier was done as a provisional agreement only on the trade elements. As the Deputy knows, the whole CETA has not yet been ratified by member state parliaments, so it is definitely not unprecedented. There will be a qualified majority vote at the EU trade Council, and then a simple majority-----...