Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

A number of farmers raised this point with me when I attended Deputy McLoughlin's meeting on the issue of Brexit. Deputy Scanlon's point about having to transport animals across the length and breadth of the country is a significant one. Deputies will recall that the Minister of the day, the late Joe Walsh, had to clamp down on all movements when we unfortunately had BSE here. People responded very strongly to that. The need to move carcasses across the country for analysis and investigation is an issue in itself. I hope that point will be made very clearly to the officials at the meeting mentioned by Deputy Scanlon. I will raise the matter again with the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

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