Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 June 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
9:00 am
Mr. Brendan Gleeson:
Two different things are happening but people will conflate them in their own minds. We have a national residue monitoring plan, which is approved by the Commission. We cannot tell by looking at a piece of meat whether it contains dioxins but we have a monitoring plan that checks these things. Through this plan we discovered a batch of horsemeat-----