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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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I will stay with that issue. Did the person who was operating that abattoir have prior convictions?
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We are not referring to a live court case.
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Was the conviction for animal cruelty?
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The building did not inflict the cruelty.
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: A prior conviction was not enough for alarm bells to ring with the deputy veterinary officer. Would that not invite an additional level of oversight when it had already been established?
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: The Department has subsequently taken the horses and moved them to different land. Is that correct?
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: They have been moved and the land is under the ownership of the person who owns the abattoir.
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Are the lands where the horses are now owned by the person who operated the abattoir?
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Considering the level of cruelty that was inflicted on those animals, the idea that they are still in the care of the person involved does not sit well with me.
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Going back to the statement of the deputy chief veterinary officer last week, Mr. Gleeson said he would be happy to furnish the committee with a report on a deep dive into all this. Internal Department correspondence will come under the spotlight. It will be gone through with a fine-tooth comb. Were any issues raised by members of the Department before?
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Mr. Gleeson said there were five complaints. Were they raised within the Department or made externally?
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: We have been through that to an extent so I want to-----
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I do not intend to labour this point because there are many other matters I want to get to. However, the deputy chief veterinary officer made that statement before the Committee of Public Accounts relatively recently, but Mr. Gleeson stated that five separate complaints had been made by members of the public, I presume before that. Is Mr. Gleeson saying unequivocally that no issues were...
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I want to explore the issue of traceability a little further. There has been huge fallout from this "RTÉ Investigates" programme. Europol joined a European meeting, co-ordinating international elements of an investigation. Dutch authorities issued a serious warning through the European Commission's rapid alert system for food and feed. There have been huge implications across Europe...
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Mr. Gleeson has to give me some sort of insight on that number. An allegation was made in the programme that 20,000 horses go missing each year. As Secretary General of the Department of agriculture, Mr. Gleeson has to be able to advise the committee whether that is in the ball park, whether he utterly refutes it, thinks it is close, nearby or ridiculous.
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: That is not good enough. I have to be honest. I want to move on to two other issues that have only arisen in the past week. News reached us last Friday that the chief financial officer at the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board, IHRB, Donal O'Shea, has resigned. He has been on voluntary leave for the past year, as Mr. Gleeson will be aware. He will remember that Darragh O'Loughlin had to...
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Mr. Gleeson found out through the press like the rest of us.
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: Would Mr. Gleeson have expected the CEO to have spoken to him? Would he have expected Mr. Darragh O'Loughlin to have picked up the phone to him or to the Minister to say he had received a resignation letter?
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: He did.
- 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) Marc Ó Cathasaigh: I remember.