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 have a residue monitoring plan, which was approved by the Commission. We have to go out and check for this stuff and we do it on the basis of random selection, as well as on the basis of risk. When we see the results of previous years, we feed that into a risk analysis system to determine what we will do in the following year. More generally, on antimicrobial resistance, AMR, we are working very closely with the Department of Health on the One Health Initiative, which coalesces animal and human health as part of the same dynamic. We are working to try to encourage farmers to use less antibiotics and are working with veterinarians to send out that message. There are a number of initiatives under way under the One Health Initiative.

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