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Scuppering a TTIP deal would be ‘suicidal’ for Ireland – Hayes

Ireland has nothing to fear from a potential EU free trade agreement with the US. That’s the view of the Fine Gael MEP Brian Hayes. Mr Hayes was speaking in the European Parliament which cancelled a debate and a vote due this morning on the EU’s negotiating position on TTIP. It’s the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership deal that the EU and the US are currently negotiating. There’s disquiet in Europe over certain aspects of the talks. All of the Irish Sinn Fein MEPs are against any TTIP agreement. Here’s Brian Hayes. 

Out words: water charges

Dur: 00:42 

Interview/Raw audio Nessa Childers on TTIP

Interview/raw audio Nessa Childers on TTIP [Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership] talks.

Out words: like that 

Dur: 2:49 

Childers demands removal of controversial dispute settlement clause from TTIP talks

The Independent MEP Nessa Childers is demanding the removal of a controversial clause from the EU-US trade talks. The European Parliament postponed a debate and a vote this morning on the EU’s negotiating position on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership talks known as TTIP.  MEPs are divided over whether or not a controversial investor protection clause known as an ISDS [Investor State Dispute Settlement] should be included in the agreement. Nessa Childers is one of the MEPs who wants it removed entirely from the talks. 

Out words: issues there

Dur:  00:30 

Interview Sinn Fein's Matt Carthy on TTIP

Interview with Sinn Fein MEP Matt Carthy on TTIP. 

Out words: people's investments 

Dur: 5:58 

MEPs in dispute over TTIP talks – Carthy

Divisions among members of the European Parliament over certain aspects of the EU-US trade talks have led to a postponement of a debate and vote on TTIP today. The MEPs were supposed to vote today on the EU’s negotiating position on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership talks between the EU and the US. But divisions among MEPs within the Parliament’s second-biggest block led to the postponement. There’s disquiet in Europe over a controversial investor protection clause known as an ISDS [Investor State Dispute Settlement clause] being negotiated. The Sinn Fein MEP Matt Carthy who’s opposed to a TTIP deal, says the inclusion of an ISDS agreement would be ‘unacceptable’. 

Out words: on profit

Dur: 00:36 

European Parliament postpones TTIP [EU-US Trade talks] debate/vote – Carthy

The European Parliament has postponed a critical debate and vote on the EU-US trade talks negotiations known as TTIP the [Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership]. The MEPs were supposed to vote today on the EU’s negotiating position on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership talks. But divisions among MEPs within the Parliament’s second-biggest block led to the postponement. There’s disquiet in Europe over a controversial investor protection clause known as an ISDS [Investor State Dispute Settlement clause] being negotiated. The Sinn Fein MEP Matt Carthy is against a TTIP deal.  

Out words: citizens’ rights

Dur: 00:27 

Interview with Sinn Fein MEP Liadh Ni Riada on TTIP

Interview with Sinn Fein MEP Liadh Ni Riada on TTIP. In the interview she discusses the threats she sees that TTIP poses to Ireland's cultural industries and other issues. 

Out words: in my view 

Dur: 3:40 

Ni Riada calls for ‘cultural exclusion’ clause for Ireland in EU-US Trade talks

The Sinn Fein MEP Liadh Ni Riada, is calling for a ‘cultural exclusion’ clause for Ireland in any free trade deal brokered between the EU and the US. The European Parliament has made a number of recommendations to the European Commission for its Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership [TTIP] talks with the US. Ms Ni Riada says any such free trade deal could jeopardise Irish cultural and audio-visual industries. She says Ireland should be entitled to the same cultural exclusion clause that France managed to broker.

Out words: that industry

Dur:  00:30

EU-US free trade talks could jeopardise RTE – Ni Riada

A new free trade deal between the EU and the US could jeopardise the future of RTE and TG4.  That’s the view of the Sinn Fein MEP Liadh Ni Riada. She was referring to the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, known as TTIP. Talks are currently underway between the EU and the US on TTIP. And the European Parliament is this week making a number of recommendations on the trade talks to the European Commission. Liadh Ni Riada, says an EU-US free trade deal could have detrimental effects on the state broadcaster.

Dur: 00:24

Out words: currently doing 

Interview with Fine Gael MEP Deirdre Clune on gender equality gap in EU

Interview with the Fine Gael MEP, Deirdre Clune on the European Parliament's push for greater gender equality. 

Out words: must achieve 

Dur: 3:42