There’s been plenty of lobbying of public officials and politicians on Brexit, according to the latest lobbying register.

Meat Industry Ireland’s Cormac Healy met with Department of Agriculture secretary general Brendan Gleeson to raise meat factories’ Brexit worries, as well as employment permits, EID and access to new markets.

Agricultural economist Ciaran Fitzgerald also met Gleeson to highlight co-op concerns about access for Irish cheese to the UK.

But trade goes both ways, which is why Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed was lobbied by international flour maker Allied Mills, which was concerned that flour and bread exports from Belfast and Britain here could be subject to tariffs in a hard Brexit.

Most flour used by commercial bakeries here now comes from the UK.

The Irish Grain and Feed Association had other matters on its mind, meeting Department chief vet Martin Blake on the use of processed animal proteins in the animal feed chain.