Tom Hayes (Tipperary South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Again, I categorically assure the House that the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine continuously monitors all meat and animals that enter the food chain, on a post-mortem and ante-mortem basis. In meat factories animals are examined, checked and watched, as happened in this case. The Deputy received a very detailed briefing on the issue from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and it is very disingenuous of him to try to blacken-----

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