Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is a really important principle. In order to be fair to our food producers domestically and across the EU, where high standards are set in food safety and sustainability, those same standards should be required of countries we would trade with. Ultimately that food is coming into the same market and competing with the food we produce.

It should be meeting the same standard of production. That is very important with regard to the trade deals being carried out that that is an approach in principle which applies and it is certainly something that we have been making clear at European level. It must be the case. We will certainly continue with that requirement.

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