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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: What was shown on TV would not lead to concerns that there might be an immediate threat to animal welfare. The Department made a judgment not to seize the animals. That means what was shown on the "RTÉ Investigates" programme was not judged to be of an extent that there was an immediate threat to animal welfare on that particular farm complex.

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 understand 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)

Brian Stanley: I know that. I am just trying to establish a pattern. The horses were not seized by the Department.

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 I be correct in saying that where serious animal welfare concerns are raised regarding the treatment of animals, and it is within buildings or on lands, the Department will regularly seize those animals?

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 have seen it.

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: Rightly so, by the way.

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 will happen with the horses that were to be slaughtered? Are they being brought to slaughtering plants where there are other animals such as cattle or sheep being slaughtered? Is that likely to happen? I am asking this in a general way because members of the public are genuinely concerned about animals. People are horrified at what they saw. Obviously, these animals are going to be...

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: If a plant has to be used. None of them have been slaughtered yet, I take it.

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 something has to be done with these horses now. They were going to be slaughtered. What I am asking does not impinge in any way on the DPP case being taken. Those horses are to be slaughtered. I am aware since last week that there was only one horse slaughtering plant approved in the State. It is no longer approved, so we do not have any now. I am asking what happens to horses...

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 if there is a horse, say, with a broken leg?

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 question members of the public are asking the likes of me is what happens now. That is clear, and Mr. Gleeson has answered it clearly. I understand 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)

Brian Stanley: Is there a level of supervision from the Department with regard to these animals and where they are being kept now to ensure they are not being mistreated?

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: Mr. Gleeson says the Department is keeping an eye on it. Can he tell me a bit more about what that means?

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: No, I do not expect 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)

Brian Stanley: There is oversight by the Department and Mr. Gleeson is satisfied. That is the key thing.

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 a vet have seen the horses since?

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 is all I wanted to know. Deputy Devlin is next.

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: Care must be taken here because some witnesses here will probably wind up having to give evidence.

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: Mr. Gleeson is correct. The person with the animals could be somebody in difficult circumstances such as an elderly person with other issues. I have come across it. We accept that. The Department must operate with the policy it is given and it must operate within the law. One thing that surprised me as we started looking at this two weeks ago was that a person with a conviction three...