394. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the reason the Health Products Regulatory Authority is requiring Irish hemp farmers and producers to formally confirm that they will destroy the flowers and leaves of their 2021 hemp crops considering that these farmers and producers are at present progressing EU novel food authorisation applications at the insistence of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland and that further clarifications was provided by the EU Commission which his attention was drawn to on 22 February 2021 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31317/21]

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394. Deputy Pauline Tully asked the Minister for Health the reason the Health Products Regulatory Authority is requiring Irish hemp farmers and producers to formally confirm that they will destroy the flowers and leaves of their 2021 hemp crops considering that these farmers and producers are at present progressing EU novel food authorisation applications at the insistence of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland and that further clarifications was provided by the EU Commission which his attention was drawn to on 22 February 2021 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31317/21]

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