Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 July 2025
Committee on European Union Affairs
Sustainable Development Goals: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Mr. Dominic Crowley:
It is biscuits, oil, pulses and wheat; a range. When we are talking about food distribution, if you are doing it properly, you are delivering a basket of foods, not just a single item. The thing that is worrying about the food that is being destroyed at the moment is the high-energy biscuits, which are essential foods that are given when everything else collapses or when people are being immediately displaced. They are given the biscuits, which can be eaten as food or can be made up as porridge. They are highly nutritious. Many of those stocks are being held in Dubai, but the UAE has a law that prevents them from being ground down to be used for animal feed once they reach the sell-by date. Therefore, we do not even get that redeeming potential from them. They just have to be destroyed at huge additional cost.
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