Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 September 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture and Food

Impact of Trade Deals on Agriculture: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

2:00 am

Photo of Michael FitzmauriceMichael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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I imagine it would be 1% or 2% and when we talk about farmers in Brazil being audited, it is going to be like a fly on a wall. To be quite frank, it is going to be the very minimum. On the backstop, am I correct in saying that they are talking about basically a 10% drop in European meat prices before they put a brake on it? However, my understanding is, and correct me if I am wrong on this, that if it was 9% for five years in a row, the brake does not stop. Is that correct?