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:
I will get to the individual if the Deputy likes. Successful prosecutions were brought against the company and several farmers relating to the issue of movement, thanks to the work of the special investigations unit, SIU, as it then was. In the case of one individual who was centrally involved, he had a 50% share as I understand it and was director of the company involved. The company was successfully prosecuted on five counts, so he was, in that sense, convicted. In his individual cases, he took a long series of legal challenges against the legal basis on which he was charged and a series of other technical legal challenges over a long period of time. This very substantially delayed the cases against him. As the Deputy knows, it finally became the subject of a settlement which I would be happy to-----