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

Ms Sinéad McPhillips:

I think the Deputy is correct. The proposal is for enhanced monitoring and reporting of imports, allowing for quick adoption of provisional safeguard measures in urgent cases, and to enable the launch of investigations where imports increase from Mercosur by at least 10% and import prices are at least 10% lower than domestic prices.