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- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Brendan Howlin: -----if there is no mechanism to enforce them.
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Brendan Howlin: 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...
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Brendan Howlin: I was here for every second of it and the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine was saying not to worry, that the agreement was only a draft that has only been 20 years in the making and there is no reason any of the detail would be important. Even a draft agreement does not emerge after 20 years of rigorous economic analysis without the Government presumably knowing what each item...
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Brendan Howlin: The Minister might answer the questions I asked on this agreement. I asked about the economic evaluation and analysis and when we will see it.
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Brendan Howlin: I want the Minister to answer the questions I asked, not the questions she wants to answer.
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Brendan Howlin: God preserve us from prepared answers because most of that was irrelevant to the questions I asked. My final question is simple. What level of economic analysis has been done to date? Is the Minister telling me that nothing has been done to date?
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Brendan Howlin: Is the Government waiting for this report that will examine everything from Korea to Brexit before it knows what the economic impact of this is? That is surely not the case. Surely in the 20 years the Department has been monitoring the progress of this agreement, it has been inputting into it as it goes along. The Minister knows the impact of this agreement sector by sector and those...
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Brendan Howlin: Has the Government done none on this agreement?
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Brendan Howlin: I presume the Minister has not been an idle onlooker up to now. She has a draft agreement on her desk now.
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Brendan Howlin: Yes, but that is the framework. The framework is there.
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Brendan Howlin: I said the framework is there. If we are not talking about the framework, why is the Commission publishing EU-Mercosur data and the details? Presumably the Government knows the impact sector by sector and has made a discernment that, on balance, it is the right thing. The Minister is saying there are impacts that are good-----
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Brendan Howlin: I have listened to the Minister say it is not all bad and not all good. She has, therefore, done the analysis that tells her-----
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Brendan Howlin: How can the Minister say what is good and what is bad if she has not done the analysis? Can she share that with us so that over the next two years of debate on this matter both at European level and in this House we can give input into shaping it into a better deal that more closely meets the ideals set out in the original partnership and that more importantly will have dispute resolution...
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Brendan Howlin: It was voted on by the Irish people.
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Brendan Howlin: This House-----
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Brendan Howlin: I am talking about the-----
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Economic Dialogue (9 Jul 2019)
Brendan Howlin: 168. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will report on his attendance at the National Economic Dialogue. [29289/19]
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Jul 2019)
Brendan Howlin: Steady now.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Jul 2019)
Brendan Howlin: I want to stay on the issue of Brexit and focus exclusively on jobs. For most people reading the estimate published by the Government yesterday, the most stark and shocking figure in it was that between 50,000 and 55,000 jobs would be lost in the event that there was a hard Brexit. It would be catastrophic for us. One of the key lessons we learned from the economic collapse was that it is...
- Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): European Council Meetings (10 Jul 2019)
Brendan Howlin: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the June 2019 European Council meeting. [26282/19]