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- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: It is because that would be an important point.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Would Mr. O'Driscoll be able to answer this particular question in terms of the false-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. O'Driscoll also said that the appeal mechanism the Department employs had been airily set aside. Can he describe for us in as brief a fashion as possible how that appeal process works?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: In his opening remarks, Mr. O'Driscoll said that generally, the individuals to whom the Department's report referred had not accessed that appeal mechanism. What did he mean by "generally"?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: We can see that documentation. In respect of the slaughter of the pigs, is Mr. O'Driscoll saying categorically that the events as we heard them about did not happen? He viewed the video evidence. Mr. O'Driscoll is categorically saying an official did not give the farmer in question a lump hammer to slaughter pigs.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. O'Driscoll said he supervised as much as 25% of the slaughter at the time. I take it this means an official was present for only 25%.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Does Mr. O'Driscoll have a paper trail which establishes this?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Is there a documentary basis for the figure?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Up to now, has the document been public?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Has it ever been published?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. O'Driscoll also said an assessment had been made that the farmer had sufficient expertise and was in a position to carry out the slaughter of his 4,000 pigs.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: I heard that. I was listening very carefully to Mr. O'Driscoll and I am aware that he has the letter, that it was not his first option and that he had suggested a different route. Why on earth would Mr. O'Driscoll have accepted the farmer's offer to slaughter 4,000 of his own pigs?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: We understand that.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: I know, and Mr. O'Driscoll gave some evocative detail as to the precision and mastery Mr. Galvin had of it, according to Mr. O'Driscoll. However, I am still troubled by the fact that we have been told that a proportion of the herd was killed by being bludgeoned to death.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: At what stage in the slaughter did it happen?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Does Mr. O'Driscoll think ten pigs were bludgeoned?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: I want to stay with the bludgeoning, and then we will come to the humane killing. It was alleged that 50 pigs were bludgeoned. Presumably, on the ten occasions a veterinary official was present to witness it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Therefore, where did Mr. O'Driscoll get the figure of ten?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Slaughter.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Mary Lou McDonald: Mr. O'Driscoll's account is that an official who was there for the purposes of carcass removal witnessed ten pigs being bludgeoned.