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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 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...

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 the ones that do not comply with that who-----

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 hope it will. When we looked at the viability, and I think we had Bord na gCon as it was at the time in here, there was actually only one track out of all the tracks that was viable. Two would have been viable if the prize money was covered. Has that changed or is that something the Department monitors?

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 I am and when I think of what you could spend €18 million or €20 million on, it would not be my first choice but that is a policy issue. In relation to the fish landing regime, obviously there was an issue there at European level. Are we fully compliant now and, if so, what has brought us into compliance?

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 did that come to public attention? Mr. Gleeson might remind us of that, or at least how it came to the Department's attention.

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: In terms of protected disclosures, how many do the Department currently have and what has it been like over the last five years?

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 two quick questions, if that is okay. We obviously do not have an equine abattoir now and, to date, there have been no live exports since the licence was revoked. When does that become a problem? Is it immediately or will it be something we will see in the winter? What are the strategies to deal with this?

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 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)

Catherine Murphy: When will it become a problem?

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: This is my final question. In the case of Shannonside, was the animal welfare officer the owner's son?