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
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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I accept that. I saw the programme and that comes across clearly. It is not unique to one location but we have responsibility for here. On another aspect, people will always try to get around systems. We understand that. The responsibility is to make sure to close those off. Presumably the Department would have been aware of precoded or blank microchips or encoding machines. Is that something of which the Department is aware and has systems to deal with? Mr. Gleeson might just give us a brief reply on that.