Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 December 2014

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Investigations Division: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

3:40 pm

Photo of Martin FerrisMartin Ferris (Kerry North-West Limerick, Sinn Fein)
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If that has happened then there is a process available. The Department can use the Garda and courts to address the matter but there is very little process for the other side only for the few farmers who took the case and won.

My main question concerned the investigators involved in the cases where farmers took the case to court and were vindicated. Are they still part of the investigations unit? Have they been investigated by Mr. Carroll's steering group?