Michael D Higgins (Galway West, Labour)

I will be brief. We have been down this road before. This process was used previously when agreements were referred to a select committee. I will attend the select committee with a couple of others, we will debate them inadequately and they will then be rammed through. They affect the right of Africans, for example, to put taxes on extractive industries that are robbing their countries. They require more than 80% reduction in relation to tariffs.

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