John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is in charge. Deputy Costello spoke about the transfer of knowledge from the past to the present and the overlap. The Department has been asked questions on this overlap, and the board and chairmen have been asked similar questions, but we have not received an answer. They will be recorded in the transcript. I propose to leave the vote open until such time as we get these answers. Our experience is that getting the answers after the event is extremely slow. I am not referring to the board or the Department, but generally speaking this is what happens. I would like to see the answers in a timely fashion, and the risk is that the witnesses will be invited in again to give the answers directly.

I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. I wish Mr. Meaney well and I compliment him on his work to date. As a constituent I know how hard he works on the board.