Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 14 Feb 1990

Vol. 395 No. 7

Written Answers. - Waterford Beef Processing Plant.

Séamus Pattison

Question:

22 Mr. Pattison asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food if a sum of money withheld from a company (details supplied) in Waterford following an investigation into irregularities at that company's beef processing plant was still being withheld at the end of January 1990; if so, the amount still being withheld; the reason; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Minister for Agriculture and Food (Mr. O'Kennedy)

I have advised the House on a number of occasions that it is not my Department's policy to disclose or discuss the affairs of individual companies. In continuation of that policy I do not propose to make any statement on the matter raised by the Deputy.