Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister's response. One thing that Enterprise Ireland or the Minister's Department needs to home in on is the storage part. My understanding from the veterinary side of this is that for eight or nine hours, a vet may be available. However, one may have a small company in this country that does not have the storage, where the lorries are going every three, four or five hours for six days a week - but not on Sundays; it may not have the the facilities and the storage to ensure that when the vet is there the product can be signed off. It is imperative for us now when we have a kind of lead-in to this, hopefully, and as the Minister says, that regularisation will happen between the EU and the UK as to the agreement on food policy or whatever, and that we will then be able to work on this.

It is important because I am hearing that Enterprise Ireland is not greatly involved in this so far and it needs to get stuck in with problems such as this. I ask that the Minister might take note of the storage part of this to help businesses out. I thank the Minister.

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