Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Question 393: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if it is legally permissible to grow genetically modified grain varieties here. [26332/07]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Only GM crops authorized in accordance with EU Directive 2001/18/EC on the deliberate release of GM crops into the environment and listed in the EU Common Catalogue of Plant Varieties can be cultivated within the EU. At present the only genetically modified crop which is authorized for cultivation on an EU wide basis is a GM Maize variety (MON 810) which is resistant to the European cornborer. This particular crop is of little or no interest to Irish farmers as the cornborer is not an indigenous pest here.