Principal Officer, Food and Environmental Health

Responsibility at Principal level for ensuring that an appropriate legal framework, policies and relevant structures are in place to achieve the highest standards of food safety including governance responsibilities for the Food Safety Authority of Ireland and the Food Safety Promotion Board; contributing to EU food policy development and transposing relevant EU legislation into Irish law; ensuring, in conjunction with other Departments, agencies and Departmental units, that appropriate frameworks are in place to facilitate the protection of the health of the public from those environmental factors that can adversely affect human health.