Brendan Howlin (Wexford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

My question is simple. What is the mechanism to do these things? The Minister keeps repeating what she intends. She says that we will have rigorous enforcement and we will have all this leverage. The simple question I have asked twice is how will we have this and how will that sit with the democratic rights of this Parliament and the elected Government of Ireland.

I have listened to the responses of both Ministers so far. Although there is more of a convergence in recent minutes, in the beginning the Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy Humphreys, was defending all aspects of the agreement, saying that the agreement was hard worked out and she defended every letter of it and then the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy Creed, said-----

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