Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 June 2015

Public Accounts Committee

2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine

10:00 am

Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:

Typically, an issue will emerge. In one of the cases referred to, a sample taken from a pig in a factory was found to contain a banned substance, a carcinogen. That triggered a question and the need for an investigation. Typically, that is the type of case that would be referred to investigations division.