Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 November 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Live Exports: Discussion

12:45 pm

Mr. John Bryan:

We telephoned them over the past couple of days but they have not returned the calls. I have spoken to dozens of marts that have telephoned them in the past few days but they have not returned the calls. I have also spoken to farmers who were assured. I spoke to a farmer only a couple of days ago whose cattle had been collected a couple of days before the receiver was appointed and who was assured the money would be electronically transferred. She has been telephoning them constantly but they are not answering. They are being a little choosy in terms of whose telephone calls they will answer, which I find unacceptable. They took cattle from people's farms and assured them they would electronically transfer the money but now they will not answer the telephone, which I find unacceptable. The receiver is the person who has the legal claim to the debt. We are interacting with the receiver and are in discussions with the bank in the UK. Since it is an off island bank, we have to travel to England to meet it.