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Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: The information we got in that reply gave us numbers but it did not get to the issue that I was looking for. Were horses rejected? I presume that in a yard, for example, as Mr. Gleeson said, they humanely put an animal down if it is injured or whatever, and it goes to a knackery.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: If Mr. Gleeson would, please. There were media reports about another case in front of Kilkenny Circuit Court that is presumably still ongoing. I understand it is to do with laundering animals to go into the food chain. Is that nearing a conclusion? Am I right about that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I presume that there is one equine abattoir. I will not press it because I understand there is-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Does the Department have an oversight role at all in respect of veterinary surgeons? Would it or would it ever have had cause to refer people to the Veterinary Council, for example?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I am aware of one case before the courts in my constituency. I do not think it went to the Veterinary Council. I would have thought a prosecution would have been a trigger for that. Does the Veterinary Council have the ability to investigate or would it require a complaint?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Do the witnesses mind giving us a note on that so we can see the chain of things as well as the numbers in recent years? When the most recent licence was granted, the court cases that were ultimately dismissed were still live. I cannot get my head around the idea that there were live cases. It was not determined. We know that the people were not told the date of the court case and that...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: You would have to describe that as a complete failure.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: When you prosecute, you have to go through a system. It will have to be sanctioned. It is not one individual who willy-nilly decides this. There will be a structure and there will be a group. Who is on that group? How senior is that decision-making at?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I remember it well.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: It is good to know that a system was put in place, and I understand Mr. Gleeson's thinking on that. Who signed the licence? was it one individual who signed the licence for Shannonside?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: Which is the relevant division?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (11 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to come back in.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Data (9 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 80. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the number of WTE civilian drivers attached to each embassy of Ireland as of 25 June 2024, in tabular form. [29392/24]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EU Funding (9 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 104. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the capital works projects under the remit of his Department that received EU funding in 2023 and to date in 2024; and the amount of EU funding that was received for each of the capital work projects in the years in question, in tabular form. [29386/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Éireann (9 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 142. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of buses in the Bus Éireann PSO fleet as of 25 June 2024; and if he will provide the figures as of 30 June 2022, in tabular form. [29393/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works (9 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 231. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of visitors at each visitor attraction operated by the OPW for the first five months of 2024; and if he will provide the figures for the same period in 2023, in tabular form. [29391/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (9 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the next EU Council of Education Ministers is scheduled to occur. [29394/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Capital Expenditure Programme (9 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 415. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the capital works projects under the remit of his Department that received EU funding in 2023 and to date in 2024; and the amount of EU funding that was received for each of those capital works projects in the years in question, in tabular form. [29395/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Expenditure (9 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 481. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the amount her Department has paid each external security company to provide security personnel at Intreo offices to date in 2024; and the contract with each security company due to expire, in tabular form. [29390/24]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Slaughtering (9 Jul 2024)

Catherine Murphy: 580. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his plans to establish and or licence a new equine abattoir in the State; and if he will clarify the status of horses that were due to enter the now closed abattoir in Kildare. [29539/24]