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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: You indicated earlier on that there has not been a change in staff.
- 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: So the old unit has been incorporated into a new regime with the same staff.
- 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 have heard about the heavy-handed behaviour of officials and what was described by some people as a very ignorant approach towards different individuals, including pregnant women. We have heard of a very aggressive approach, with complaints being made about the ill-treatment of animals in the aggressive way in which those animals were tested. Allegations were made of entry into premises...
- 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 accepts 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: Would Mr. O'Driscoll like to take the opportunity to acknowledge that in the case of Mr. Fannin, the unit was wrong and that this gentleman is due an apology from 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: Nonetheless, without second guessing her, that is the conclusion she arrived at.
- 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: As we heard, Mr. Fannin and his wider family suffered incredible personal distress and stress. He reported feelings of exclusion even within his broader community. He told us that his physical health has suffered. Without Mr. O'Driscoll second guessing the judge given that it is a finding of the court, I invite him to at least make an apology to Mr. Douglas Fannin.
- 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 would prefer if Mr. O'Driscoll did not qualify 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: So Mr. O'Driscoll is not apologising for it. I will remain with this particular case. I understand that in the course of the case, it came to light that a senior vet associated with the special investigations unit seized animals on 24 March 2009 and that these animals were put into the food chain. The same vet subsequently made a sworn statement under oath at Bailieboro Garda Station on 7...
- 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: Could Mr. O'Driscoll explain this to me?
- 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 appreciate that but I presume that when Mr. O'Driscoll gives us the point-by-point rebuttal, he can show us paperwork that demonstrates the point he is making.
- 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?