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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 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?

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 remember it well.

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: It is good to know that a system was put in place, and I understand Mr. Gleeson's thinking on that. Who signed the licence? was it one individual who signed the licence for Shannonside?

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: Which is the relevant division?

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 wish to come back in.

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 want to talk about the animal welfare officer. In Mr. Gleeson's reply to us, he told us that the animal welfare officer is responsible for assisting the business operation to ensure compliance with the relevant welfare legislation within the plant and requires a more extensive level of training than the other plant operatives dealing with and handling live animals. The application to the...

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: On what date was the last licence issued for Shannonside Foods?

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: One of the charges was dated from 2014 but was not heard until November 2016. What was on the charge was the person did neglect or be reckless regarding the health or welfare of 54 horses contrary to section 12(b) of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013. That was the pending charge.

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: It was still a live-----

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: Has Mr. Gleeson seen the Mazars report?

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 told us they were going to publish that as soon as it was received. We are presuming that is now a final report.

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 know it is a policy issue in relation to the 80:20 in terms of horses and dogs. The greyhounds are designated as livestock, whether they race or not, and that is why they are under Mr. Gleeson's Department. I always found that kind of difficult to figure out because a dog is a dog. The overbreeding was obviously the subject of that previous episode of "Prime Time Investigates." The...