Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:

No, there is no way that we would have had difficulty at all with him having medicines to treat sick pigs. That just would not be possible, but here is the option we would have had and it is another option. We could have taken over the pigs and got them slaughtered, probably. However, if we did that, our legal advice, as I understand it, at the time was that if we took over the pigs, we would end up having to pay compensation.

One should think of the situation that the Department was in. From our point of view, we had found somebody who, innocently or otherwise, and I take Deputy Deasy's point about 1999-----