Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals

Photo of Jackie CahillJackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail)
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To ask a follow-up question, 15% of farmers are being taken out of the inspection regime. Are we still holding them to a 5% level of inspections, or whatever the level is in this regard? If this is the case, for those who are left, the likelihood of inspection will be greater. Has the level of inspections dropped accordingly to correspond with the people taken out of the inspection regime?