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

Photo of Mary Lou McDonaldMary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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So Mr. O'Driscoll is not apologising for it. I will remain with this particular case. I understand that in the course of the case, it came to light that a senior vet associated with the special investigations unit seized animals on 24 March 2009 and that these animals were put into the food chain. The same vet subsequently made a sworn statement under oath at Bailieboro Garda Station on 7 July 2009 that the animals contained a toxic substance. How did animals that were suspected of containing a toxic substance find their way into the food chain?