Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 24 October 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants

9:00 am

Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

-----and possibly coming back as prepared consumer foods. One would also have the opposite happening, where one would potentially have raw materials coming in from other European Union countries and going into processed foods here and being exported. It is a very complex web of trade that is difficult to explain to people. Unless one understands the precise economics around every product, it is difficult to understand.