Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We probably need to look to the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to comment on how we support the sector. I do not want to do his job for him. He is more than capable of doing it and is very vocal in this space at Cabinet meetings. Some of the disruption to the agrifood sector is clearly linked to Brexit, and our key market and nearest neighbour for agrifood products - we sell €5.5 billion of food to the UK every year - has to be factored into the Brexit adjustment reserve.

I hope that part of that €1 billion will be earmarked for the agrifood sector.

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