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

Mr. Muiris Kennedy:

Not necessarily, because the regulations state that all the individual processes that take place have to be validated. There have to be production protocols and processes for monitoring them and they have to be audited. All the producers have to agree to follow the same procedures, and that takes time. I do not know how long the process will take for craft products. I have no idea.