Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)

For any food in this country, we should have a label detailing where it was produced and we should not allow any industry to put Irish labels on if the product is not Irish. The same thing is happening in the pig industry, where pigs are being brought in from all over the world and being labelled as Irish. That is the kind of world in which we are living. I thought when Deputy Sargent was to be made Minister of State with responsibility for food, we would have many proposals, the first being that we would see proper labelling on food. While I accept that the Minister of State, Deputy Gallagher, holds responsibility in this regard, I would not ask him to take action. He let the fishermen down and now he is going to let us down with regard to food labelling.

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