Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 July 2024
Public Accounts Committee
2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
9:30 am
Mr. Brendan Gleeson:
Lest the word "might"might have misled people, that is one of the areas where we are asking for a quick review so that is something we are going to consider. It is complex enough legal stuff. If someone has a conviction, do you ban him or her in perpetuity? The courts convict people of animal welfare offences and can choose to apply a fine or issue some kind of order disbarring that person from keeping animals again. The courts do not always do the second thing. I am simply saying that these are the kind of legal issues we have to be careful about but that is the sort of thing we are going to look at.