Debate contribution: Animals: EU Imports

Debate contribution by Mr Timothy Gaston on 25 March 2025.

MLA: Mr Timothy Gaston
Party at the time: Traditional Unionist Voice
Date: 25 March 2025
Type: Debate contribution
Business: Oral Answers to Questions
Heading: Animals: EU Imports
Assembly identifier: Official Report component 4866533

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Why then, on 15 January, did the Minister for Food Security and Rural Affairs tell the House of Commons:
"In Northern Ireland, the controls will apply to meat and live animals moving from a 3 km protection zone and a 10 km surveillance zone surrounding the affected premises in Germany. Those products cannot be moved to Northern Ireland"?
The rest of the UK is protected by a ban that covers all of Germany, so why should farmers in Northern Ireland not receive the same level of protection?

87 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.

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This follow-up belongs to: Oral question AQO 1767/22-27.

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