Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)

It is coming through the EU, assisted by the trains. Our fresh produce is good.

I was prepared to introduce a statutory instrument when I came to this Department and I had been advised by the Attorney General that it must be supported by primary legislation. I found that it was going to take me some time to get back to the House with primary legislation and on that basis I am being facilitated with such legislation by means of a new health Act which the Minister for Health and Children will hopefully bring forward at the beginning of the next term if we get through everything else in this term.

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