Áine Collins (Cork North West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that when it comes to food safety but I am talking about country markets in my constituency where women would be baking at home and bringing produce to market on a Friday morning. We had to close such a market because the women needed a particular licence to produce food at home and a licence for a market stall. It was not viable to keep it going. That does not happen in France. A person in France can produce something and sell it on the street without any problems but we cannot do that here. Those are the issues of concern to me.

There was an older issue where if a person traded at the side of the street for years, he or she almost automatically received a trading licence but there would be no piece of paper. There is a great difference between us and other parts of Europe. The committee might look into this in greater depth.