The Management of the Department
The Management structure of the Department under the Secretary General Mr Tom Moran comprises Assistant Secretaries, the Chief Veterinary Officer and the Chief Agricultural Inspector.
The structure is given below including reporting Divisions:
Cecil Beamish, Assistant Secretary
- Sea Food Policy & Development
- Aquaculture & Foreshore Management
- Marine Engineering
- Sea Fisheries Administration
David Beehan, Chief Agricultural Inspector
- Crop Policy, Production and Safety
- Crops Evaluation and Certification
- Plant Health and Horticulture
- Pesticides Registration and Controls
- Feedstuffs, Fertilisers, Pigs, Grain and Poultry
- Livestock Breeding, Production and Trade
- Nitrates, Biodiversity & Engineering
- Research Food and Codex
- Agricultural Inspectorate Audit Unit
Tony Burke, Assistant Secretary
- Finance Division
- Accounts Division
- Legal Services Division
- Internal Audit Group
- Agriculture Appeals Office
- Agriculture Structures
- Agriculture Environment & Structures
Philip Carroll, Assistant Secretary
- National Beef Assurance Scheme
- Animal Health and Welfare
- Animal Health Admin
- ERAD / Veterinary Medicines
- Personnel Division and Training
- Accommodation, ISO and Health & Safety
- Management Services Division
- Regional Office Administration
- Corporate Affairs/F.O.I & Minister's Office
Dan O'Sullivan, Director of Laboratories
- Dairy Science Labs
- Pesticides, Seed Testing and Plant Health
- Veterinary Public Health Regulation Laboratory
- Bacteriology
- Pathology
- Virology
- Regional Veterinary Laboratories and Blood Testing Laboratory
- Biosecurity
- Backweston Labs Admin Unit
- Longtown Farm
Martin Heraghty, Assistant Secretary
- Meat and Milk Policy
- Milk and Meat Hygiene including Animal By-Products
- Dairy Controls
- Food Safety Liasion, North/South Co-Operation
- Food Industry Development
Aidan O'Driscoll, Assistant Secretary
- EU & International Trade
- CAP Rural Development
- Economics and Planning
- Climate and Bio-Energy
Michael Bunyan, Assistant Secretary
- IMT Direct Farm Payment Systems
- IMT Animal Health & Traceability Systems
- IMT Customer Financial & Fisheries Systems
- IMT Infrastructure
Martin Blake, Chief Veterinary Officer
- State Veterinary Service Internal Audit Group
- Veterinary Public Health Inspection Service South East, East & South
- Veterinary Public Health Inspection Service South West, North East & North West
- International Trade and Class A Contingency
- Veterinary Medicines and SIU
- Class B Diseases,TSE and Animal By-Products
- Veterinary Area Management - South
- Veterinary Area Management - North
- ERAD - Brucellosis, Animal Welfare
- ERAD - TSE Eradication, Animal Identification
- TB/CVERA/Identification/Johne's/Training
Kevin Smyth, Assistant Secretary
- Single Payments
- Disadvantaged Areas and Suckler Cow Schemes
- Direct Payment Integrated Controls
- Forestry
- Market Supports
