Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 15 December 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Impact of Brexit on the Agrifood Industry: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Padraig Brennan:

There are a couple of reasons for that. First, the UK market for Irish beef is still one of the highest paying. To get the best possible return on the beef produced, the UK is really important to us, and that is why we still have approximately 250,000 tonnes of beef going to that market. At the same time, we have grown the volumes exported to markets such as the German, Italian, Scandinavian and Swiss markets. Therefore, there has been some progress made. At any time, it is a matter of determining whether we can, in a different market, get a better return than the return from the UK. In some cases, the answer has been that we could. In other cases, it has been that we could not. That is why the UK-----

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