Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Will it be said in times to come that this kind of a standard in process will become EU-wide so that this accreditation would have a wider validity and others could not claim to be grass-based on labelling unless they genuinely were? They might not have the systems that Irish dairy farmers have but they can try this. Legally, there is nothing to stop them saying they are grass-based and putting green pastures on their advertising unless there is some wider standard.