Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)

As I have said previously, the sugar quota was renounced by Greencore plc and not by the Government. The entire quota was held by the company and not the State.

The sugar regime in its present format runs to 2015, not 2017. I say that from memory but I will double check that. The regime was not changed between 1968 and 2006 and there is no indication from the Commission that it proposes to change the regime at this time because there is no indication whatsoever of this issue being revisited.

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