Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

To answer the second part first as it is quite specific, yes, I have been speaking to a number of businesses around the turnaround time. I do not want to start naming them now. One is in the Deputy's neck of the woods.

It exports very large volumes of food on a daily basis and has distribution warehouses in the UK that are part of quite a sophisticated supply chain that comes from Macroom to Wexford and onto the UK. It is just one of many companies that will be relying on an efficient turnaround of veterinary certificates in order to be able to sell food into the UK.