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- 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-----
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Brendan Howlin: That does not fill me with confidence. We will arbitrate with President Bolsonaro, a man who is a climate denier and one of the most right-wing dictators and leaders in the world. Our Constitution is carefully balanced to ensure that the balance of power between the Government of the day, the Parliament and the law courts is maintained. The courts have traditionally encouraged private...
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Brendan Howlin: That is nothing but words.
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Brendan Howlin: It is just words-----
- 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: Twenty years ago there was a vision of a genuine partnership between the peoples of South America and Europe. What was intended was a mutual beneficial partnership which would assist both Europe and the Mercosur countries to continue their economic development. With what we have been presented in the draft is mostly a free trade agreement. There is mention of social and environmental...
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Brendan Howlin: Will the Minister set it out?
- EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2019)
Brendan Howlin: I asked the Minister about enforcement
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Operations (9 Jul 2019)
Brendan Howlin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach the number of whistleblower complaints in his Department to date. [28114/19]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committee Meetings (9 Jul 2019)
Brendan Howlin: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if Cabinet committee C (European Union including Brexit) met in May or June 2019. [27636/19]