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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Daly: What are you going to do about it? That is the question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Daly: There again, with the greatest of respect, if it had not been for the RTÉ programme, would that case even have happened? Would those carcases be destroyed now? It was your job before the programme, if you were doing your job, to make sure that never happened. A knee-jerk reaction post the programme, as has been quoted somewhere else, is not good enough.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Daly: I am sorry, the Leas-Chathaoirleach wants to go in himself. I forgot about him. I reserve the right to come back.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Daly: I have one question for HRI just before we finish. When we have meetings like this coming up we get correspondence from people. I got some correspondence that HRI would have got information in 2022 about irregularities with microchips internationally, or whatever. In such a circumstance, if it is true, what does HRI do with that? As has been pointed out to Senator Boyhan, HRI is not the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Daly: But did HRI pass it on to the Department?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Daly: Finally, when the Department got information, did it have the authority to pursue it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Daly: I will pursue that in round two.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Daly: I am conscious of time. The bottom line is that the system is not working, and it can be tampered with. If I bought a 13-year-old horse but found out three months later that the horse is actually 22 years old, I would question a system in which that could happen. The system can be tampered with and it is not working. If it is not working, it needs to be fixed. Half of my time is now...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Daly: I say this with the greatest of respect and, for legal reasons, I will not mention any of the people who are involved. I am as straight a man as you would meet on a day’s walk, but if an opportunity like that was afforded to me and if it was going to be so easy to fill out paperwork after the deed is done, it would be very tempting in any walk of life. If you leave loopholes, people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Daly: I am conscious that my time is up but I am also conscious that TDs are not back. Can I do my second round now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Daly: I will go back to what I was asking about the information that came to the Department via HRI and what action was taken in response the irregularities. I think our guests said that the issue was highlighted most in the Netherlands. What action, if any, was taken by the Department on the basis on that information?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Daly: I am talking about 2022.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Daly: Would it surprise Mr. Sheahan to hear that a person allegedly provided that information and got no satisfaction? Due to the inaction, that person's next port of call was RTÉ.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Daly: A stitch in time saves nine. This whole fiasco could have been avoided, apparently and allegedly. As I say, we get information and cannot verify the sources at times. However, that is allegedly the case.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Daly: If action had been taken, RTÉ would never have been approached to pursue this investigation. Unfortunately, Mr. Sheahan, that brings me back to the Department's doorstep.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Daly: What plans are there to open an acceptably monitored slaughter plant? One is necessary to ensure that appropriate end-of-life facilities are available. We are going to have another problem. If it is so easy to export horses, there is now a bigger necessity within that circle. How soon can we have an acceptable, well-managed and well-monitored abattoir up and running? It is a necessity...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Daly: I know that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Daly: For one to be legally operational in the future, I assume it will be put through the wringer by the Department before it gets the green light. How long is that process going to take? With every passing day and week, we are creating problems elsewhere because, as I said, it is a part of the whole cycle and it is a necessity. I assume that if I wanted to open one in the morning, the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Daly: Yes, Mr. Sheahan did say that earlier but how long is the process going to take?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Welfare, Treatment and Traceability of Horses: Discussion (26 Jun 2024)

Paul Daly: Does the Department see the urgency here? Does it see the need for one?