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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)

Brian Stanley: They include Bord Iascaigh Mhara and Teagasc.

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)

Brian Stanley: Does the Department employ many staff from agencies in-house?

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)

Brian Stanley: Okay. I want to move on to the situation with the horse industry, horse slaughtering, etc. It is clear from the reply to the parliamentary question and what Mr. Gleeson said this morning that the Department was aware of an ongoing Garda investigation and a prosecution being pursued through the courts, but we were not made aware that the Department was aware of that. We have established...

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)

Brian Stanley: To what is Mr. Gleeson referring?

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)

Brian Stanley: Yes, but in relation to the plant in question we have established there is a Garda investigation and court proceedings. We want to be careful about what is said here. Has there been a discussion with any Department staff involved with the plant in the past ten years who are not retired?

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)

Brian Stanley: The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine had staff on-site at the plant. It was said there was cruelty at the farm attached, but it was actually in the same complex. The programme showed it was in the same yard. The building is adjacent to the slaughterhouse; that is the reality. The farm is connected and not down the road somewhere. We have established that much. There were...

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)

Brian Stanley: What happens when there is a deficiency regarding passport and traceability requirements? Do departmental officials go in straightaway?

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)

Brian Stanley: Questions have been asked about what happens to the meat from slaughtered animals. We understand it goes to France. Can Mr. Blake tell me the position on former racehorses, which I understand are not suitable for human consumption? Can he state categorically that no meat from horses slaughtered at the plant and formerly in the horse racing industry was exported to the European market?

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)

Brian Stanley: I know that, but what happens to the meat?

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)

Brian Stanley: So, old racehorses could have been used.

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)

Brian Stanley: Okay.

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)

Brian Stanley: The licence for this plant was revoked. I understand the certificate regarding animal welfare has been revoked. Is that correct?

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)

Brian Stanley: Is that regarding somebody who would have a role in animal welfare?

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)

Brian Stanley: That has been revoked, so all is good with that. However, the horses were moved. Were they moved with the Department's approval?

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)

Brian Stanley: They have been moved.

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)

Brian Stanley: For legal reasons, Mr. Blake is not able to clarify whether they were moved with Department approval or not.

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)

Brian Stanley: For legal reasons, Mr. Blake is not able to clarify this morning whether they have been moved with Department approval.

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)

Brian Stanley: Okay.

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)

Brian Stanley: There is just something peculiar about it. I would have thought in a situation like that, the horses would be seized, and that once that came to light, the Department would move straight away. I have seen the Department seizing animals before very quickly.

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)

Brian Stanley: Would that normally be the default position, though? I do not want to be too specific about this but generally when there is a question of serious animal cruelty-----