Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I hope to propose at our meeting next week to consider our work programme that the committee, with its approval, prepare a report on an Asia strategy. We hope the Department will of some assistance to us in that regard. Asia and the ASEAN countries have much to offer, particularly given the huge volume of exports to China and concentration of trade in that region. There are, however, other markets in the region, as the Minister remarked, on which we should be concentrating.