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:

There is very close contact. I have been around a long time so I was involved in the foot and mouth disease incident, intimately. Do not forget, we had checks on the Border during foot and mouth disease. We had police and customs officers checking food coming across the Border during foot and mouth disease. Notwithstanding the fact that we engage with the North on Border controls, at that time we did checks on the Border. We do not want to go back to that.