Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 8 October 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals
3:20 pm
Mr. David Lynch:
That is the case. There will be some increase in activity at border control posts relating to goods of non-animal origin. There are very prescribed controls that are supposed to take place with regard to meat and meat products coming in. Inspections must take place. That is not the case, as far as I know, for plant products. There are fewer controls. There will be a greater emphasis on the checks that are carried out on such products.