Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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I am not convinced by Mr. O'Driscoll's account of events. In fairness to Mr. O'Driscoll, this might be because he does not have the paperwork in front of him or for other reasons.

I am not immediately drawing a negative in that respect, but to me it is a garbled, half account of what seems to have happened here. As part of the information the Department returns to the committee, I ask it in particular to look at the issue of the slaughter of those animals and to establish precisely if it can the sequence of who, why, what, when and where of relevant events. Concerns around animal welfare, which loom large in the Department's objectives, are a serious consideration here.