Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister of State and her officials. I thank them for coming before the committee to provide the information they have.

In the context of the economy and business, the role of the CSO is obviously a major one. Has it identified accurately the challenges that might lie ahead for economic performance? With countries at the top of the curve, provision needs to be made for those less performing days, for want of a better description. How do we plan for that?

I have noted recently there are quite a lot of food, meat and dairy imports into the country. I do not know to what extent these are monitored at the moment. I tabled a question on this yesterday but have not seen the result of that yet. This is an issue given the threats to Ireland's agrifood sector arising from climate change. I saw today that somebody made a mistake in measuring climate change and its potential. I have not had time to look this up to find out what the mistake was. Everybody is entitled to make a mistake but we must correct it whenever we can. With imports of meat, meat products and dairy products into this country, are we satisfied those exporting countries are subject to the same restrictions around climate change? Do we have information to confirm or deny that?