Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

There are many things people are not supposed to do in some of those countries, no more than with tagging cattle, traceability and all of that. Sure, it is loolah what goes on in some of those countries, but Europe is closing its eyes to it. Yes, they will sign up to an agreement. I think what the Mercosur agreement said is that the only way a country can be thrown out of it is if it gets out of the COP climate agreement. The Department cannot be looking at this, and I understand this fully. It makes no sense for someone to go saying that if some fella sprayed whatever on a crop abroad in Brazil or wherever that we are going to know that when it lands in Europe three or four months later when it has been combined and gone in. Europe must think farmers are purely in a world of their own and do not understand, if that is what it believes is going on. We know this. The likes of the Irish Farmers' Journal and other crowds and the farming organisations have gone out and proved what has gone on in cattle.