Mr. Dan Brennan:

When we got post mortems done on our cattle, Tom Slevin, the vet in Castlecomer, spotted that 11 post mortems were wrong. Bone was starting to form in the kidneys, arteries and soft tissues of the animals. Mr. Slevin went to Dublin, contacted the Department and told it he wanted to get a pathologist from England to look at this. The Department agreed and told him to pick the pathologist in England. Mr. Slevin picked Mr. X, brought back his name to the Department and it wrote back to him to say, sorry, but Mr. X was not suitable. Mr. Slevin went back to England and picked Mr. Y and sent the name to the Department. It said, sorry, but Mr. Y was not suitable. That happened three times. There was a deliberate attempt not to look at what was wrong. If there are bones growing in the arteries and lungs of cattle, there is something seriously wrong. When you can cut their bones with a knife there is something seriously wrong. How could that be my fault? How could that be a disease problem? It would have showed up before then. There was a deliberate attempt to not let anybody else look at what is wrong.