Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 October 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Geographical Indications for Craft and Industrial Products: Discussion

9:30 am

Photo of Matt ShanahanMatt Shanahan (Waterford, Independent)
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Yes. We certainly see the benefit of the status across the country. To Mr. Kennedy, achieving GI status for an organic product such as a bread could take five years, but could it be the case that for something such as an industrial product, where there are not health and safety issues relating to human consumption, it would take far less time?