Tim Lombard (Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

What I cannot get over here is the traceability element. I am sorry, I will return to Senator Victor Boyhan next.

With bovine operations, there is traceability all the way through so that we know where the animal lives, who owns it, where it is going and how it is run. If that animal is destroyed or died, we know where the knackery is. We know everything about it. Therefore, there is traceability all the way through the system. Even with that issue regarding giving an animal an anti-inflammatory, we will not have a horse that is 200 years old on the system. It does not work like that. This is a wake-up call to make sure that we learn from our lessons. On the lessons that we learned from 2013, I am of the view we have not learned enough and a lot of work needs to be done, in particular, on that issue.