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:
There is the issue of international trade and movement. Regarding what we can do, if we had a finding of something here tomorrow, we would argue that we have not had it before, so we should be given an opportunity to eradicate it. The Scots may argue for that or they may self-exclude until they determine what the issue is. If they had a finding like that, they would possibly self-exclude that area or a wider area and not move until they clarified the situation to see how widespread it might be. That is the difficulty of international trade and the reciprocity issue that was mentioned earlier.
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