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-----