Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 September 2021

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statement 2020 and Related Matters: HSE

9:30 am

Mr. John Swords:

We checked the documentation and the product met the world health standards. The area we are talking about is where we had them in quarantine and were waiting for a PCS document or clearance from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. That was subject to discussions between the company and the Department. We await the outcome. In the interim period, we have quarantined those products. They will be in use and, bearing in mind the context we were working in, we took in the products to our national standards. The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine has a requirement there. The company did not have that so we placed them in quarantine. We await the outcome of those discussions.

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