Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 June 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine

9:00 am

Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

We can look at these things two ways. Things happen and when they happen the important thing is to tackle them in a transparent and vigorous way. From time to time, there are food safety issues and the Department takes them very seriously. We would prefer if these things never happened but they do happen. Our reputation can be damaged by the event but it would be more damaged if we did not tackle it in a very open and transparent way.

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