Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to discuss an issue of urgent public importance, namely, the application by BASF to use a five acre plot in County Meath to grow genetically modified potatoes, the long term knock-on effects of such a prospect on the marketing of Irish conventional and organic food produce, the need for the Government to explain why it is failing to protect Irish agriculture and why the failure of transparency in the attempted import of GM maize through Greenore Port has been tolerated.

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