Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I turn to the issue of food, about which there was much talk of regulation. Let us imagine that the British Prime Minister and the US President do a wonderful trade deal, which the latter astonishingly stated will quadruple trade with the UK, and let us say American beef starts landing in Belfast. In order to protect Irish beef and impose EU standards in respect of it and on the broad assumption that beef from the US will almost certainly not meet EU standards in a variety of ways, what will happen? Will the State have to take action to prevent beef from crossing the Border from the Six Counties?