Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 25 October 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
North-South Implementation Bodies: safefood Ireland
2:15 pm
Mr. Ray Dolan:
I will take the Deputy's second question first and then might hand over to Dr. Kearney. With regard to procurement, we do not know. Most of these issues are common to many organisations. They are not unique to us but we do not know what Brexit will look like. We hope the standards we spoke about earlier will be very similar but we do not know. With regard to processors, last year, we started to conduct workshops for small and medium enterprises, SMEs. That is Dr. Kearney's responsibility and I will ask him for his comments. We do not see many processors come through the front door, but when we put these workshops together, and we have them dotted around the island, North and South, they certainly come through the front door in their droves. They are a wonderful example of how partnership works but also of the ability to communicate with processors. Dr. Kearney might like to comment.
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