Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

It is difficult, which is why I agree fully with the Tánaiste that what has been said in Westminster - that there is some easy mechanism to deal with this - is complete nonsense. We need to progress preparations and prepare our people properly. My concern is that there is still no clarity on some very specific issues. Glanbia has said today that it brings 130 million l of milk from Northern Ireland to the South every year. It would be useful for farmers on both sides of the Border to know what will happen with that milk, rather than everyone rushing to find a plan to manage the issue the day after Brexit. What happens in the case that we suspect there is chlorinated chicken in the UK market, a scenario the Taoiseach cited yesterday? How would we manage that? Would it be managed at Dublin Port, at the factory or at the Port of Larne? We should not be scrambling to answer that question on Brexit day plus one. We all agree that we want to avoid infrastructure at the Border, but if we will have to have vets carrying out checks in respect of animal movements, when will the vets be told what those checks will be and where they will take place? Leaving it until after a crash-out would not be doing a service to our people. We need some sort of internal discussion on the issue so that we will know exactly what might be ahead of us, as difficult as that might be.

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