Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 February 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector

9:00 am

Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:

We have been discussing this endlessly internally, with the tag supply companies and with farming organisations. The idea put forward by Deputy Aylward has been suggested. It is where a farmer uses two tissue tags instead of a conventional tag and a tissue tag.