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:
It is under the Department of Health. There is an unusual arrangement in Ireland. The Food Safety Authority of Ireland is at the top of a pyramid over several other agencies. For the purposes of food safety, the Department is one of those agencies. We operate on the level of a service level agreement with the FSAI. That is something we agree periodically. It comes down and audits us on the standard set. We work with the FSAI. It provides independent scrutiny of what we do but it comes under the remit of the Department of Health.
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