Thomas Pringle (Donegal, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for his contribution so far. I do not have the same intimate knowledge as other members, as I am not from a farming community. Looking at the documents the Minister has supplied to the committee, there is no 2018 output. There is a list of targets but no outputs. We have no way of gauging how the Department has performed on any of the parameters. It is regrettable because our view of the Minister's performance is based on outputs and our own knowledge. Any Joe Soap would see there is nothing here on how the Minister is performing on any of these figures, which is disappointing. Anything I say will be gauged in this regard.

The key outputs in programme A include the number of food safety and hygiene inspections carried out. In 2017 the outturn was 3,657 and the target was 9,400.