Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Let me assure the Deputy who was worried about hares being raised that I will raise legitimate concerns. I will use my five minutes to focus on one issue in the Minister's speech, a subject that received one sentence in a 13-page speech on agriculture and yet, along with climate change, poses the most significant threat to agriculture and fisheries, which is the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, TTIP, which has been referred to many times. I invite the Deputies on my right to read it. I am grateful to the groups that are out protesting today and which have made us aware of this agreement, because otherwise we would have no information. What has happened in this Dáil with the previous Government is that its members have told us this agreement is excellent and good for the country so we do not need to know anything about it.

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