Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I am sorry, and I do not mean to be disrespectful to the Minister but that is just nonsense. There is no way to police this guy. There is no dealing with people like that. This guy is a dangerous lunatic, a climate change denier and a thug. Even if we set aside what Bolsonaro is doing in Brazil, has the Government quantified the sheer expansion of transport emissions as a result of this deal, even on its own terms? What are the extra emissions of CO2 that will further choke the environment as a result of this deal being done? They will be massive. Does that not show complete hypocrisy on the part of the European Union that it plans to sell cars for cows, as some people are saying, massively increasing emissions as a result of the expansion of transport emissions? Is that not an inescapable fact?

Here is an irony about the tariffs: we had a briefing today from the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Deputy Coveney, who said that if there is a no-deal Brexit, Europe will have to impose tariffs on agriproduce from the North of Ireland. Europe is going to do that and the Irish Government agrees with the principle of doing that. More tariffs will be imposed on stuff coming from the North to the South of this country than there will be on the massive amounts of poor quality beef coming up from Argentina, based on cutting down rainforest and jumping up and down on people's human rights. One could not make it up.

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