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:

At the point of approval, I think we have to have a system that says these are the tests that have to be carried out to determine the suitability of an individual but they have to be based on some robust piece of law because it is not simple. In particular, it is not simple when you are dealing with a corporate applicant.