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Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I am going to leave my questioning there and come back later with some further questions.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I have been told there have been cases of veterinary inspectors who declined to take up a post because their duties would include Shannonside veterinary clinic. Can Mr. Gleeson confirm that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Will Mr. Blake check it out and come back to me?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: How long have the current veterinary inspector or superintendent veterinary inspector been in situ?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Will Mr. Blake come back to us with that and tell us how long their predecessor were there? I want to see whether there is churn and what that might be. I often get the impression, when there is European oversight, real attention is paid to it. We can pay more attention when there is European oversight. Would the witnesses accept that is the case?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 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...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Does Mr. Gleeson mean that is the case not just in that one plant? That is routine, presumably.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Are there spot checks?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: We got a reply from the Department in relation to some of the questions that some of us asked the day on which Horse Racing Ireland, HRI, was before us. It told us the total number of horses slaughtered in 2023 was 1,987, of which 1,434 were registered thoroughbreds. If they are registered thoroughbreds, that does not assume they have raced. How many have raced and were therefore excluded...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: They are excluded or should have been excluded from Shannonside. There would not be a mixture.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: If they were coming from the training yard, presumably they would have raced and there would be a higher possibility of their having been administered with those medicines.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I presume e-prescriptions and things like that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: The information we got in that reply gave us numbers but it did not get to the issue that I was looking for. Were horses rejected? I presume that in a yard, for example, as Mr. Gleeson said, they humanely put an animal down if it is injured or whatever, and it goes to a knackery.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: If Mr. Gleeson would, please. There were media reports about another case in front of Kilkenny Circuit Court that is presumably still ongoing. I understand it is to do with laundering animals to go into the food chain. Is that nearing a conclusion? Am I right about that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I presume that there is one equine abattoir. I will not press it because I understand there is-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Does the Department have an oversight role at all in respect of veterinary surgeons? Would it or would it ever have had cause to refer people to the Veterinary Council, for example?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I am aware of one case before the courts in my constituency. I do not think it went to the Veterinary Council. I would have thought a prosecution would have been a trigger for that. Does the Veterinary Council have the ability to investigate or would it require a complaint?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Do the witnesses mind giving us a note on that so we can see the chain of things as well as the numbers in recent years? When the most recent licence was granted, the court cases that were ultimately dismissed were still live. I cannot get my head around the idea that there were live cases. It was not determined. We know that the people were not told the date of the court case and that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: You would have to describe that as a complete failure.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: When you prosecute, you have to go through a system. It will have to be sanctioned. It is not one individual who willy-nilly decides this. There will be a structure and there will be a group. Who is on that group? How senior is that decision-making at?