Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals

Mr. Michael Moloney:

I would not think so. We stack inspections. We have the sheep improvement scheme but also now have a national sheep welfare scheme. We anticipate massive overlap between those two populations. When we select for the sheep improvement scheme, if we can, we will do the national sheep welfare scheme as well. We are doing multiple inspections at a time on the one farm to reduce the number of gates we cross. I would say it has been a considerable amount of time since the true cost was looked at but it certainly would not be thousands.