Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

General Scheme of the Agricultural and Food Supply Chain Bill 2022: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Photo of Charlie McConalogueCharlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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I would expect it in the main to be employees of the new office of fairness and transparency. If it was a very specialist skill they had to find somebody to do, it would have the capacity to do that as well. The key thing would be the responsibility of the CEO to appropriately designate authorised officers. It is an important position and a responsibility which has to be carried out in a way that is responsive to law. Therefore, the CEO would have a responsibility to make sure the person appointed as authorised officer is appropriate to the task.