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Bovine Diseases.

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 17 November 2004

Wednesday, 17 November 2004

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Fergus O'Dowd

Question:

361 Mr. O’Dowd asked the Minister for Agriculture and Food her views on the story in a newspaper (details supplied) that BSE risk material may have unsuspectingly entered the national food chain through the pipes of a company (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [28870/04]

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My Department and two other defendants are being sued in the High Court by a company in Drogheda which had been engaged to store specified risk material tallow by a third party and which claims to have done so unknowingly. The newspaper story to which the Deputy refers is based on a statement made in the course of the case by a former employee of the company. I would not propose to comment on the case other than to say that my Department is vigorously defending its position in the court.

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