Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 12 February 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Live Exports: Discussion

Mr. Seamus Scallan:

We must also be very careful about other people who may have problems with Irish calves going through. We are blessed that we can go out of Rosslare and Dublin. The weanlings do not have to be there in the 9-1-9 period, which is a maximum of 19 hours, and when they come off the ferry in Cherbourg they can travel for another ten hours. The weanlings are not causing a blockage in lairages as they can travel onwards. The calves must come off.