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Beef Industry

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 16 April 2019

Tuesday, 16 April 2019

Ceisteanna (440)

Denis Naughten

Ceist:

440. Deputy Denis Naughten asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 957, 959 and 962 of 26 March 2019, when his Department took the decision to no longer hold digitised images in view of previous commitments by his officials to the Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine; the reason his Department no longer has access to these images; if he will review this decision; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17554/19]

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The mechanical grading machines are the property of each individual meat plant and the images generated by these machines are therefore retained in each factory's own computer system.  While my Department has limited access to these images, it does not own, hold or control these images.

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