Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Transparency and traceability are key with all the food we produce. Farmers and all in the food supply chain go to great efforts to show where it coming from at a farm level, from both a quality and a safety point of view. Ultimately, that is also very important in trying to ensure we get the maximum price for it when we go to sell it. The potential of any new technologies around this must be explored to see how they can assist us because we have a tremendous platform and agrifood sector to build on and try to develop. The more we can empower the primary producer, the better. I am certainly open to any ideas and suggestions for how we can bring this forward. I have no doubt that our State agencies will be interested in engaging and considering them and their potential as well.

On the task force, it has been meeting and going through in great detail many of the issues that emerged in advance of it being established in late 2019. It is due to meet again very shortly to follow up on the third of its reports.

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