Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

From all the talk about the agricultural industry, people understand that we export a massive amount of food products to the UK, and according to the Department's annual report, we import much more food from the UK than we export to the UK. I will continue on this point. The Netherlands is the second biggest country for our exports with 420,000 tonnes in 2018, but we imported 710,000 tonnes from the Netherlands in the same year. I will go down through the list. The United States is a growing market to which we exported 190,000 tonnes of agrifood products in 2018 but we imported 1.071 million tonnes in the same year. It is a revelation. I must admit it is a revelation to me.