Mr. Michael Horgan:

All our inspectors are trained and know that they are obliged to behave in a professional manner. We would hope therefore that it was none of our inspectors. As regards the idea of having inspections by different agencies, one could have the Food Safety Authority of Ireland or another agency coming on the same day, not to mind the same week. In a rural area, an official from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine could attend also. I am not sure if one person could do all those things in one visit, although I am sure some could. We have discussed it on a number of occasions. Through our memorandum of understanding with the different agencies, we have sought ways whereby if one of those agencies has been in to inspect somewhere, it would give us the report and then allow us to decide whether or not we need to visit that company. We would be quite happy with that, but I am not sure how far we can bring it. I suspect that we would not be the ones leading it.