Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 January 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Threat of Bark Beetles to Plantations: Discussion

Mr. Barry Delany:

Again, it is back to the exporting country. The exporting country would argue that they have not found any of these quarantine pests in its pest-free area and, on that basis, it has three choices, two of which are what the Senator mentioned. The third is area freedom and, on the basis of surveillance and inspection, they are certifying that freedom to us. They have the choice of those three options once they show freedom. If they have increased their surveillance and are monitoring it closely and they find something, a number of the options the Senator mentioned are possibly opened to us. At the moment, where there is no finding in the pest-free area, we do not have the options the Senator mentioned open to us.

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