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

Photo of Simon CoveneySimon 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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