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); More than 80% of people to be offered first vaccine dose by the end of June, says Tánaiste The Tánaiste says he hopes government can do better than the September target. By Christina Finn Wednesday 3 Mar 2021, 8:28 PM Mar 3rd 2021, 8:28 PM 30,549 Views 79 Comments Image: Sasko Lazarov Image: Sasko Lazarov TÁNAISTE LEO VARADKAR has said ...

TÁNAISTE Leo Varadkar has heavily criticised a Green Party TD’s “unprecedented” High Court action against his own Government over the EU-Canada trade deal.

Political Correspondent Green Party TD Patrick Costello has lodged papers in the High Court regarding the EU-Canadian trade deal, known as CETA, as he believes a referendum may be required for its ratification.  The Dublin South Central TD said his legal advice is that the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement involves the transfer of sovereignty and judicial power which is incompatible with the Constitution. Mr Costello said he was concerned that if an element of the deal known as the Invest...

Aoife Moore: Campaigning on Ceta has come back to haunt Greens A High Court challenge over the constitutionality of Ceta by a Green Party TD is yet more proof the leadership cant get its TDs in line Happier days: Neasa Hourigan and Eamon Ryan at the partys general election manifesto launch in January 2020. Picture: Caroline Quinn/PA Wire Wed, 03 Mar, 2021 - 20:30 Aoife Moore, Political Correspondent If there was ever a perfect illustration of the state of the Green parliamentary party, its th...

Opponents of the trade agreement claim it would allow multinationals to sue Ireland through an Investor Courts System (ICS) if strong climate and social rights protections are brought in. Ms Hourigan has said publicly she will not vote for the deal when it comes before the Dáil. The three Coalition party leaders have agreed to allow an Oireachtas committee to further scrutinise the deal - but Costello, a TD for Dublin South-Central, says a referendum may be needed. Legal proceedings seeking a ...

Mr Costello said there was a “good case” that a referendum was needed in order to ratify Ceta. “On Monday, I lodged proceedings in the High Court to seek clarification on who gets to ratify the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement, commonly known as Ceta. I had sought the opinion of counsel on the ratification process, in particular the Investor Court System (ICS) element of Ceta, which will come into effect if ratified.” In a statement, Mr Costello said the investor court...

‘Canada is like America – just a lot nicer.” So, what’s so awful about an EU-Canada trade deal? The Green Party’s internal divisions on the issue were put aside but never resolved before Christmas due to a threat of failure to get TDs and senators to ratify the trade agreement. The issue was “politically parked” last month pending an expected Dáil committee review that was seen as a Government device to minimise Green Party divisions and get the lucrative trade deal over the line...

Israel, vaccines and Palestinians   Sir, – Jackie Goodall (Letters, February 13th) suggests that the Israeli state’s record-breaking vaccination rollout is being “subsequently used to further a political agenda”. On the contrary; I welcome any news of success in the global struggle against Covid-19, but a sense of fairness compels me, and many others, to protest the media’s frequent sanitisation of the Israeli state’s discriminatory policies towards the Palestinians, which well-re...

THE controversial EU-Canada trade deal is to be referred to an Oireachtas committee in a bid to prevent a damaging split in the Green Party. Taoiseach Micheál Martin, Tánaiste Leo Varadkar and Green Party leader Eamon Ryan have agreed that the EU’s Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada will be referred to the Oireachtas European Affairs Committee for further scrutiny. The move further delays a Dáil vote on a motion to ratify CETA which would have seen a number of Green ...

Green Party rift on EU-Canada deal sidelined via Coalition committee Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement a persistent cause of simmering discontent Wed, Feb 10, 2021, 17:24 Updated: Wed, Feb 10, 2021, 17:26 A Fine Gael source said the decision was agreed between the three leaders but added there is little chance of the actual deal being reopened by the European Union.   A potentially damaging split within the Green Party over the controversial EU-Canada trade deal has been ave...