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

As the Deputy knows, the EU has to date adopted 11 packages of sanctions in response to Russia's illegal and unjustified war of aggression in Ukraine. The trade measures linked to those sanctions are sophisticated and targeted but do not prohibit all trade. Individual exporters need to decide whether to continue to trade with Russia when such trade is not prohibited in the sanctions to which we have signed up. Of course, they also must factor in other considerations, including how the consumers of their products will respond to their continuing to trade and make profit from the Russian market.

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