The Government's foot-in-mouth disease

What will ministers say now?

When the original foot-and-mouth crisis hit, the Government worked hard behind the scenes to suggest that the problem came from the private lab, rather than its own.

It got them through the original outbreak. By the time it became clear that the Government didn't have a clue, the story had died down.

Now it's back. And we know that the problem was not caused by sabotage, or a careless employee of a private company but by a pipe on a site controlled by the Government where inadequate arrangements had been made to establish who was in charge of hygiene.

So what will the ministers say now?

Comments

[MikeA]

No this time it's definitely the fault of Merial and it's state-of-the-art high-tech facility and absolutely nothing to do with the lo-tech and crumbling government facility sharing the same site with it's "shabby" facilities and leaky drains, whatever the HSE says...or at least that's what Damien McBride is telling me....