Results 641-660 of 1,060,874 for in 'Dáil debates' OR (speaker:Mark Ward OR speaker:Catherine Murphy OR speaker:Brian Stanley OR speaker:James Lawless OR speaker:Alan Farrell) in 'Committee meetings'

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)

Brian Stanley: Where cattle and other animals are being slaughtered, is it correct to say there are county council vets?

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 money for these vets comes from the witnesses' Department to the county council. It is what is called a contra item. I am trying to remember.

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 county councils call it a contra item and each year it is in the budget. Would those vets be approved 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 they be qualified?

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 would be a standard they would have to meet.

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 important because these are only small abattoirs attached to butcher shops and they would operate to high standards. It is important they are not put out of business because they are probably the ones that are using the best practice. There is one issue on my mind regarding horses and it has come up here several times. The Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board, IHRB, is funded by...

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: We have raised this with the IHRB in this committee and it assured us that it does not feel that it impinges in a negative way. Do the witnesses understand the point I am making?

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 am aware that it has increased. The witnesses might clarify this point when they come back with the piece of information on whether there is an arbitration.