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

4:05 pm

Mr. Philip Carroll:

The focus of our work is to determine whether issues like that should be dealt with by an investigation group. We made some determinations on that quite recently. Issues came forward where there was a preference for an investigation to be conducted. We took a view, and will continue to do so, that one would need to have fairly exceptional circumstances for the investigations division to become involved in a single payment inspection.