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In fact, it is so ludicrous that Asda, a major grocery firm, has to apply all these labels—at pain of being penalised with hefty fines if it does not—and it does not even have supermarkets in the Irish Republic. It can sell only in Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK, and yet it is forced to have all this labelling, regulation, and compliance checks, with lorries being turned back—as we heard in our evidence at Stormont from one of its representatives—even though it cannot sell outside Northern Ireland. People may come up from the south, but Asda does not actively sell in the Republic.