Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Department's representatives should sit down with European Commission officials and say that we intend to introduce a derogation in respect of this to facilitate the trade currently carried out by responsible persons. Those responsible persons have legislative standards to which they must adhere. It is not as if we are giving people a blank cheque. We intend to do that and we want to ensure that we are doing it in line with this regulation. I believe the Commission will work with us because it is in the EU's best interests for us to be able to operate with that flexibility.