Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 December 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Impact of Brexit on the Agri-food Industry: Discussion

Mr. Conor Mulvihill:

To answer the Deputy's questions on export credit insurance, we export 95% of our dairy on an all-island basis and we have been requesting export credit insurance because of a derogation of state aid law in the European Union. We are the only major exporter in the European Union without state-led export credit insurance. To be fair, the Government and the Department have done Trojan work in preparation for Brexit but, to be blunt, this is the one big gap from our perspective that has not been adequately answered. Competitiveness-----