Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)

Unfortunately, those proposals were not accepted by the European Union. I mentioned at a recent committee meeting, and the Deputy questioned me on this recently, that I had observed a different attitude to labelling among other member states, country of origin labelling and European Union labelling. The Minister, Mr. Benn, in our nearest neighbour Britain, spoke recently about the need for consumers to know from where their food originates. It is a welcome move by Britain that it wants the know from where food is coming. Some other member states have also expressed an interest in this issue.

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