The Management of the Department
The Management structure of the Department under the Secretary General Mr Aidan O'Driscoll comprises Assistant Secretaries, the Chief Veterinary Officer and the Chief Agricultural Inspector.
To view the Department's organogram please open attached file: DAFM Organogram (pdf 221Kb)
The structure is given below including reporting Divisions:
Cecil Beamish, Assistant Secretary
- Seafood Policy & Development
- Aquaculture & Foreshore Management
- Marine Engineering
- Sea Fisheries Administration
- Marine Agencies & Programmes
Bill Callanan, Chief Agricultural Inspector
- Crop Policy, Production and Safety
- Crops Evaluation and Certification
- Plant Health and Horticulture
- Pesticides Control
- Pesticide Registration
- Feedstuffs, Fertilisers, Grain and Poultry
- Livestock Breeding, Production and Trade
- Nitrates, Biodiversity & Engineering
- Research Food and Codex
Martin Blake, Chief Veterinary Officer
- Audit, Enforcement, Ethics and Organisational Governance and Special Investigations Unit
- Veterinary Public Health Implementation
- Veterinary Public Health Policy and International Trade
- NDCC/Contingency response & Animal Health International
- Non-ruminant Animal Health, Animal Welfare & Animal Remedies
- TSE, Animal By-Products & Animal Health Surveillance
- Veterinary Area Management - South
- Veterinary Area Management - North
- Ruminant Animal Health, ERAD, Premises Registration and Animal Identification
- Animal Identification & Movement
- Animal Health & Welfare
- ERAD/Veterinary Medicines & Regional Office Administration
Sean Keevey, Director
- IMT Direct Farm Payment Systems
- IMT Animal, Customer, Financials & Fisheries Systems
- IMT Infrastructure
- IMT Co-ordination
Kevin Smyth, Assistant Secretary
- Finance Div & Central Procurement Unit
- Accounts
- Horse & Greyhound Racing, and Teagasc
- Internal Audit Group (oversight role)
- Agricultural Appeals (oversight role)
Colm Hayes, Assistant Secretary
- Agricultural Environment & Structures
- Forest Service
- Forest Sector Development/COFORD
- Forest Service Inspectorate
- Forestry International
- Organics, Market Supports & Locally Led
- Agri Environment and On Farm Investment
- CAP Rural Development
Brendan Gleeson, Assistant Secretary
- Meat & Milk Policy
- Milk & Meat Hygiene & Animal By-Products
- Dairy Controls
- Food Industry Development
- Horse & Greyhound Racing
Brid Cannon, Assistant Secretary
- BREXIT & International Trade
- EU Division
- Economics and Planning
- Climate Change and Bio-Energy Policy
- Permanent Representation Brussels
- Agricultural Counsellors & Attachés
Donal Sammin, 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
Paul Dillon, Assistant Secretary
- BPS (Inspections; Financial Control; Policy Co-ordination; Risk Management); Beef Data & Genomics Programmes; Commonages; Greening; LPIS Rebuild Project
- BPS Operations, ANC, KT & Innovation Unit
- CAP/Single Payment Entitlements & Financial Controls
- Direct Payments Integrated Controls
Vacant, Assistant Secretary
- Accommodation. ISO, Health & Safety
- Corporate Affairs, F.O.I., Minister's Office
- Human Resources
- Legal Services
- Management Services
