Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 June 2015
Public Accounts Committee
2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
10:00 am
Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:
No, they do not do that. Why do they not do that? It is because the idea of percentage inspections is that we encourage compliance. The idea is that by doing a random percentage of inspections we encourage everyone to correct behaviour. That is the idea. The question of the percentage of inspections that should apply has always been a subject of major debate in Europe. The question of whether 5% is enough or too much is often debated.
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