Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Can the witnesses expand on the staff cap? Mr. Dolan spoke about the lack of an office in the North. Does he think one should be facilitated? A number of members attended the British-Irish Parliamentary Assembly last week. Britain is a bridge for goods going to and from Ireland and we are dependent on Britain to a large extent in this area. Does safefood have concerns over this? Does it get involved in such issues? Has safefood looked at the costs of technological checks for food? The witnesses said safefood will continue to function but that the costs of North-South co-operation would increase as a result of the likely emergence of new practical impediments to meaningful collaboration.

Has Mr. Dolan a price? Has he an idea of the funding in relation to that?

Those were the questions that struck me. As for the GMOs, in Britain they are all talking about new trade. The big worry is that if there is such trade with the United States, most of the foods there are GMO foods and that is where there will be leakage.