Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 30 November 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Environmental Impact of Local Emissions: Discussion
Mr. Padraig Walshe:
On the legal issue, Mr. Sheehan has looked at it but the risks are too high. We are all convinced that there was a lot of collusion with the institutes of the State. I am not a sceptic by nature. As I said earlier, I would not have believed this if I had not seen it with my own eyes and experienced it myself. There has been so much collusion between various bodies. Very good veterinary people were very helpful with Mr. Sheehan in the early days. They went through a lot of rounds doing work for us. Then, all of a sudden, they were put under pressure and they pulled back. There is no question about it. In the case of one person in particular, her manager put his two hands on her shoulders and suggested she needed to be careful.