Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:

The Deputy is absolutely right about those points, as I understand it. Nevertheless, the reason the EU banned it was because it found that it was a carcinogen and, as I said, it was also genotoxic. That is what it found.

The farmer admitted that he had made this available to pigs. He talked about it being spread on the floors of the pig-pens - pigs would lick a product off floors. Once that admission was made, effectively, the pigs had to be slaughtered. There was no testing to be done. The farmer contested this and he went to the High Court and, I think, to the Supreme Court, but he certainly went to the High Court-----