Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 November 2021
Seanad Committee on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union
Update on Withdrawal Agreement, Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland and Trade and Co-operation Agreement: Minister for Foreign Affairs
Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
Correct. They could not be treated as UK product because they originated in EU. Those redistribution centres have had to change their systems quite fundamentally. Many retailers in Ireland now access directly through hubs in France, the Netherlands, Germany and so on. However, it is not as easy to do that for medicines. It is not like a box of corn flakes.
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