Written answers
Thursday, 18 October 2007
Department of Agriculture and Food
Genetically Modified Organisms
5:00 pm
Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Question 187: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if she will clarify the situation regarding the growth of genetically modified foods in Northern Ireland; the negotiations that have taken place with her Northern Ireland counterparts on these matters; her definition of a GM free zone; and the action she will take to achieve same. [24563/07]
Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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I presume the question put forward by the Deputy refers to the commitment in the Programme for Government to seek to negotiate the establishment of an all Ireland GM free zone. I am currently engaged in discussions with my Cabinet colleagues on how best this commitment can be effected, while taking into account the views of all interested parties and the sectors most directly affected.
When those deliberations are complete I will make contact with my Northern Ireland colleagues.
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