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:

That is a reasonable interpretation. I am not questioning it; I am just trying to explain the sequence of events as I understood it at the time. I think the view would have been that the pigs had to be slaughtered and removed from the food chain no matter what test was done because of what the farmer had admitted.