Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)

I take Deputy Upton's point. The Food Safety Authority of Ireland indicated recently that it is distributing written guidance to all caterers on how to comply with regulations. That would take account of the issues which have arisen since the regulations were brought into effect on 3 July last.

During the months since, people on all sides of this House spoke of the value of having labelling. It had to be well known in the public consciousness that these regulations had come into effect.

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