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:

All the assessments are economic models and are subject to a set of assumptions. They found that the additional imports, assuming they were in high-end cuts, would reduce producer returns in Ireland by about 2%, or €55 million.