Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)

I understand Deputy Naughten raised that issue on the Adjournment recently with the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children. The beef labelling requirement issues are centralised under the Food Safety Authority of Ireland. With regard to the issue of transformation, which has been raised constantly by Deputies Naughten and Upton, the Minister, Deputy Coughlan, has consistently raised it at EU level at the Council of Ministers and it will be raised shortly once again. The Bill going through the Oireachtas completed Report and Final Stages last evening and has to go back to the Seanad in respect of amendments made in this House. It will then be a matter of signing off on regulations to be presented to the EU for approval.

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