Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)

We issued a trade notice on Sunday night. We stated publicly that those involved in the trade could start moving produce from slaughter houses and start processing, as long as they met the requirements of our veterinary services and the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, one of which was the need to verify that the pigs they were about to slaughter, or had slaughtered, did not have any connection with any of the farms where the potentially contaminated food ingredient had arrived. We put that in place and issued that notice to the trade at some stage on Sunday evening. That is publicly known. The other matter relates to the European Food Safety Authority.

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