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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Implications of Brexit for Irish Exports: Irish Exporters Association (9 Mar 2017)

Brendan Smith: Some of our exporters, for example, in the part of the world I come from use Warrenpoint and Larne ports. Do the witnesses have a figure for what percentage of our exports go via those ports?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Implications of Brexit for Irish Exports: Irish Exporters Association (9 Mar 2017)

Brendan Smith: That would be an extra complication as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Implications of Brexit for Irish Exports: Irish Exporters Association (9 Mar 2017)

Brendan Smith: It would be very important. We can talk about high-end premium products and food but it must be remembered that one must get a price as well. I have some experience in the food area. Our agrifood sector works. It is highly sophisticated. There is not much more we can do as we are the best there is. We export food to approximately 181 countries. That is a significant number of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Implications of Brexit for Irish Exports: Irish Exporters Association (9 Mar 2017)

Brendan Smith: I am very optimistic about the profession we trade in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Implications of Brexit for Irish Exports: Irish Exporters Association (9 Mar 2017)

Brendan Smith: We did not mention currency fluctuations today, nor did we mention our high dependency on Britain as a location from which we import a considerable amount of products, particularly intermediate products for manufacturing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Implications of Brexit for Irish Exports: Irish Exporters Association (9 Mar 2017)

Brendan Smith: We must be concerned with ourselves.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade, and Defence: Implications of Brexit for Irish Exports: Irish Exporters Association (9 Mar 2017)

Brendan Smith: The other point, to which Deputy Crowe alluded, concerned the land border. We have raw material in agricultural products, such as milk. The milk is taken from the North to be processed here. I am thankful that many of our major food companies are all-Ireland companies. They have processing sites on both sides of the Border. Depending on the time of year or season, raw material may travel...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Official Engagements (9 Mar 2017)

Brendan Smith: 38. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the discussions he has had with the Minister of Agriculture in the Northern Ireland Executive, the British Secretary of State with responsibility for agriculture and the European Commissioner for Agriculture and Rural Development regarding the arrangements that will need to be put in place to facilitate the movement of agricultural...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agrifood Sector (9 Mar 2017)

Brendan Smith: 52. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to implement additional measures to assist the mushroom sector as a result of the particular difficulties facing this sector due to a weakening in the value of sterling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12373/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Small and Medium Enterprises Supports (9 Mar 2017)

Brendan Smith: 106. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to introduce an export guarantee scheme for small and medium businesses due to the particular difficulties that are arising for some sectors that have a heavy reliance on exports to the sterling area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12697/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (9 Mar 2017)

Brendan Smith: 132. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when a building project (details supplied) will proceed to the next stage; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12682/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing Eligibility (9 Mar 2017)

Brendan Smith: 146. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government when a review of the income eligibility limits for social housing will commence; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12673/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (9 Mar 2017)

Brendan Smith: 175. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the particular challenges arising for all of Ireland following Brexit will be part of the discussions with the Northern Ireland Secretary of State and with the political parties represented in the Assembly following the recent elections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12611/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (9 Mar 2017)

Brendan Smith: 180. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the outcome of discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland following the recent Assembly elections in relation to the need to have the Assembly and Executive re-established without delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12618/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (9 Mar 2017)

Brendan Smith: 181. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the outcome of discussions he has had with each of the party leaders represented in the Northern Ireland Assembly in relation to the need to have the Assembly and Executive re-established without delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12619/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (9 Mar 2017)

Brendan Smith: 182. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if in his discussions with the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and with the leaders of the parties represented in the Assembly, he has outlined in detail the need to implement in full the Good Friday Agreement and successor agreements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12620/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Brexit Issues (9 Mar 2017)

Brendan Smith: 176. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the particular challenges facing business and enterprise in the Border region, which are heavily or totally dependent on exports to the sterling area, will be considered in the context of the all-island civic dialogue on Brexit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12614/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Council Meetings (9 Mar 2017)

Brendan Smith: 177. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the issues discussed at the recent Foreign Affairs Council; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12615/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Council Meetings (9 Mar 2017)

Brendan Smith: 178. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the proposals he put forward at the recent Foreign Affairs Council in relation to the urgent need to provide humanitarian assistance to Somalia, Yemen, South Sudan and north east Nigeria, in view of the imminent threat of famine and the desperate need at present for humanitarian assistance in that region; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: European Council Meetings (9 Mar 2017)

Brendan Smith: 179. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if additional humanitarian aid will be provided as a matter of urgency to Somalia, Yemen, South Sudan and north east Nigeria, in view of the desperate plight at present of so many persons in that region; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12617/17]