Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We are developing them in parallel but we need to wait until the Bill has been passed and know exactly what we are providing. We intend over the summer to put out draft regulations for consultation including by the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.

We will seek to implement them thereafter. We are developing them in parallel so that we do not have to wait until everything is completed. Obviously, the regulations will not cover everything from the word go. We will focus on food. We are not going to include garden plants, for example, although we have indicated we will engage in consultation in that regard. The way we have drafted this gives us some facility to introduce the more urgent piece first.

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