Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

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This meeting has been convened to consider Committee Stage of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022. I welcome the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Deputy McConalogue, and his officials: Ms Sinéad McPhillips, assistant Secretary General, agrifood strategy and sectoral development; Ms Angela Robinson, principal officer, food industry development division; Mr. Noel Clancy, principal officer, unfair trading practices, UTP, enforcement authority; and Mr. Ray Sheehy, assistant principal officer, food industry development division.

We will now proceed with consideration of the Bill.