Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 23 April 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Groceries Sector: Discussion (Resumed) with FDII and IFA

3:55 pm

Mr. John Bryan:

There is no legislation issue with boats if they are certified. We have often put cattle on boats in Dublin and gone to Holyhead and then through England on the way to France and Italy. They do not like animals to be transported through the tunnel, however. There is no legislation stopping animals going over and back. I cannot tell the Deputy if the boat to which he refers is certified. In the past we worked with P&O and used to have four containers a week going out.