Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 November 2012

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage

10:25 am

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I raised another issue about a risk of disease. The legislation states that an authorised officer, for whom no particular technical qualifications or at least only very general specifications are laid down in the legislation, can decide there is a risk of disease and without that officer seeking any technical advice.

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