Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 3 July 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Statement of Strategy 2023-2026: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

5:30 pm

Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

That was the subject of a torturous negotiation. I am not sure. It has to be reviewed in 2025, by the way. If there could be some simplification of the certification rules for animal products, for example, that would be a great help to us. At the moment, we have introduced systems whereby we check animal products that come into the UK. We now have to certify animal products that go to Great Britain. From some time in 2025, they will start checking Irish animal-based products at European and UK ports and border patrol posts at Europe. That is all friction that costs exporters and is a huge administrative burden on us. If there were an SPS agreement, a kind of agreement as part of the trade and co-operation deal, that would be a great help.

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