2518. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to his Departments' confirmation that it has no statutory basis for auditing milk testing for payment purposes and that there is no legal requirement to accredit payment-test methods, his views on whether it is consistent that commercial measurements such as weighting scales and fuel pumps are subject to statutory verification under the Metrology Act 1996, while milk testing used to calculate farmer payments is not; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55968/26]

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2518. Deputy Michael Fitzmaurice asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to his Departments' confirmation that it has no statutory basis for auditing milk testing for payment purposes and that there is no legal requirement to accredit payment-test methods, his views on whether it is consistent that commercial measurements such as weighting scales and fuel pumps are subject to statutory verification under the Metrology Act 1996, while milk testing used to calculate farmer payments is not; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55968/26]

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