Cattle transport plan ‘unacceptable’

Strasbourg: The draft new EU proposals regulating the operation of the live export trade are unacceptable from an Irish perspective, a member of the European Parliament claimed yesterday.

Munster Fianna Fáil MEP Gerard Collins said the proposals as they currently stood would adversely affect the export of live animals from Ireland to the rest of Europe and to third countries.

The Commission wants a system put in place where animals are kept in stationary trucks for 12 hours after nine hours travel.