Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

As I outlined, it is a paper-based application process for a licence from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. Once that is approved by the Department and the composition of any sanitiser is made clear in respect of the licences provided, the legal responsibility is then on the company to ensure it actually meets the requirements of the licence which was provided.

There is therefore an ongoing legal obligation on the company to ensure that its product is fit for purpose and does what it was licensed to do. My Department is conducting ongoing tests on products that are on the market. I have ensured that a number of those have been increased to ensure there is confidence in the products that are on the market. However, that cannot at any point take away from the fact that the legal obligation is on the company providing these products, and it must provide them in compliance at all times with the licence. If one were to sample a product at the point of licensing, there would be no guarantee that the product being sampled would be the same as any product subsequently produced. The legal onus is on the company at all times to ensure that what it produces does what it is licensed to do.

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