Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 11 December 2012
Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Animal Health and Welfare Bill 2012: Committee Stage (Resumed)
3:25 pm
Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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The Minister knows that from being a Minister. A Minister has got a few thousand civil servants and he cannot go out on the farm and investigate the circumstances and, therefore, the report comes back up through the same chain of command. Will the Minister clarify between now and Report Stage whether a person would have a right to get such a decision examined by the Ombudsman for fair procedure?