Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I have a brief supplementary to support Deputy Harkin on that. I also come from County Leitrim and boxty is something we grew up with from when we were children coming home from school. There was boxty dumpling, boxty loaf and pan boxty. In many parts of country they have not even heard of it but it is a staple diet for many people in that part of the world. It is a tremendous and a really healthy product. Finding this PGI status for it and pushing it forward is something that should certainly be done with haste. It would be useful if the Minister pointed out what the timeframe is on this particular step. If he does go to this next step, how long is that going to take? Where are we going to be? Are we going to be back here in a year's time saying we have done stage 1 and now it is going to take another couple of years to get to stage 2? We need to see progress and a roadmap as to how we are going to get this resolved. As Deputy Harkin has said, it is ten years now since it was first mooted. We certainly do not want to see any more delay in respect of getting this sorted out.

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