626 Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the efforts that he employed in the course of his recent visit to China to address the continuing anomaly whereby pigs born and reared in this State and brought for slaughter and processing in the County Tyrone based Vion Meats plant at Cookstown are unable to access the Chinese market because neither authorities, north or south of the Border, can verify all three elements of traceability, that is born, reared and slaughtered; if he will report a breakthrough or at the very least progress towards an island of Ireland solution to this problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19941/12]

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626 Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will report on the efforts that he employed in the course of his recent visit to China to address the continuing anomaly whereby pigs born and reared in this State and brought for slaughter and processing in the County Tyrone based Vion Meats plant at Cookstown are unable to access the Chinese market because neither authorities, north or south of the Border, can verify all three elements of traceability, that is born, reared and slaughtered; if he will report a breakthrough or at the very least progress towards an island of Ireland solution to this problem; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19941/12]

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