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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)
John Deasy: Is the Comptroller and Auditor General recommending that all the sales be held by public auction?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)
John Deasy: How many instances of those have occurred?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)
John Deasy: I am sorry for delaying the meeting, but I thought it was important.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)
John Deasy: When does the Comptroller and Auditor General intend finalising his report?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)
John Deasy: Is there a way of engaging in some kind of sampling in the meantime when it comes to some of the assets being disposed of? The one thing I took from what the Comptroller and Auditor General said, was that he had a difference of opinion when it comes to the rate of disposal.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)
John Deasy: I should have said the speed of the disposal.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)
John Deasy: I understand.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)
John Deasy: I understand.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)
John Deasy: Between now and finalising the report can the Comptroller and Auditor General engage in some kind of sampling with regard to the ongoing disposal of some of these assets?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)
John Deasy: When it comes to the sale of property, everybody is an expert after the fact.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (18 Jun 2015)
John Deasy: Hindsight is 20/20 vision and more so in the disposal of property assets than in any other area. However, it might be worth considering that sampling on an ongoing basis. The Comptroller and Auditor General has answered the question. He intends starting 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) John Deasy: Will Mr. O'Driscoll publish 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) John Deasy: When the official removed the lump hammer from Mr. Galvin, confiscated it and directed that it was not the way to slaughter a pig, did the Department's presence increase for the subsequent slaughter of the rest of the 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) John Deasy: Mr. O'Driscoll understands my 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) John Deasy: It was not my turn to speak. Thank you very much.
- 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) John Deasy: I welcome Mr. O'Driscoll and his officials. I will go back to the case that was raised earlier concerning Tom Galvin in 2002. I am dealing with the case. Mr. O’Driscoll made a couple of points in response to Deputy McDonald. He was asked if a similar situation occurred again whether he would act and conduct affairs in a similar way. He suggested that he would probably not do 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) John Deasy: Absolutely.
- 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) John Deasy: Could I stop Mr. O’Driscoll on the first point? It strikes me that when all of this was being explained, nothing as weighty as that was considered. I do not just refer to the threat of what could go into the food chain. It amazes me that when it comes to the obvious and potentially devastating financial result that did occur, only 25% of the slaughter was supervised.
- 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) John Deasy: That is compounded by the fact that on one occasion – as Deputy McDonald alluded to – lump hammers were allegedly taken away by officials from Tom Galvin, the farmer in question, but there was no change in procedure with regard to the subsequent slaughter that occurred after the fact. Notwithstanding the fact that it was potentially a very serious case in terms of the food...
- 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) John Deasy: Mr. O’Driscoll said earlier that he could not understand why he approached the Department in the way he did to slaughter the animals in the manner in which he did. It is fairly understandable. My understanding is that he went to a couple of abattoirs and they would not take the animals for the obvious reason that they probably said they did not want any potentially contaminated pigs...