Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 July 2024
Public Accounts Committee
2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
9:30 am
Mr. Brendan Gleeson:
I am going to try to answer this as best I can. I am not trying to send the Chair around the houses. Right now, these horses are the subject of a control notice. They cannot go anywhere. They are subject to a control notice. There is no slaughter plant in the country available for slaughtering horses. The facilities required for slaughtering horses are quite different from the facilities required for slaughtering bovines, so I cannot see that happening. Mr. Blake can correct me if I am wrong.