Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 October 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants

9:00 am

Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

There are two points there. First, Ireland could not make those regulations. It could not demand the labelling of individual products with that information because it would be viewed as an effort to impede trade.

I am subject to correction on this and I do not have the appropriate person here to correct me but I think Bord Bia is involved in an exercise to establish food facts and to set up some kind of a programme that in a general way, and not through a labelling system, establishes food facts to address any inaccuracies-----

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