It is a matter for the Food Safety Authority of Ireland, in conjunction with local authorities and health boards, to address alleged breaches in the retail and catering sectors and I understand the FSAI is following up the matters raised. I have been concerned for some time about the issue of food labelling and, for this reason, I established a widely representative group to examine the matter, which reported to me on 10 December 2002. On the basis of the recommendations of the food labelling group I took a number of actions which included arranging for the centralisation of control of food labelling in the FSAI; pursuing with the EU Commission the question of extending the beef labelling regulations to the catering sector; and asking the consumer liaison panel to carry out market research to identify consumer requirements on the origin of meat, including beef. While beef imports constitute a small fraction of our overall production and exports, it is absolutely essential that EU labelling requirements are applied to all beef sold on the domestic market, irrespective of origin.