Thomas Byrne

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Today with David McCullagh · Canada & EU budget · 17 Sep 2026 podcast

There's nobody in the EU system would be trying to undermine that.

I I don't know.

I mean I was talking to him at length yesterday, but he certainly didn't consult me on what he should say in his speech to the European Parliament if I'm completely honest about it.

Um I I I I think we're going to hear more detail of what he expects in the relationship.

He also, by the way, is very keen that we all of the Member States who haven't ratified the CETA trade agreement do so as uh as soon as they can.

We're one of those um Member States that hasn't yet ratified it, but we're on on the way to

doing that subject to a court challenge again.

Uh but that is something that that needs to be done and that's a a loose end that needs to be tied up and that agreement is bringing real benefits to people.

not that kind I mean it's controversial.

I mean look, a Sinn Fein MEP has taken it has taken the government to court to prevent the ratification of it.

Uh quite frankly, uh anyway, I shouldn't really talk about the court cases ongoing at the moment.

That's let that go through the courts.

But

I I would be very strongly in favour of the ratification of CETA because it makes sense for people uh and for businesses right across the country and for employment, which is what really what we're about.

Well these are questions that we would

be I suppose be more than happy to discuss and many of them would be really advantageous for Irish people.

So let's see where the discussions lead us.

I mean obviously there's political questions to be answered back home in each of the Member States, including in Ireland.

But also Mark Kearney has to answer to to Canadian people as to what they want the relationship to be and there may be aspects of that that people would favour, but but maybe not all of it.

So all of those things sound really good and you know, in general the Irish government would be very positive in terms of its consideration of all of them.

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