In my opinion, this is a very important job. Furthermore, according to a survey commissioned by the Agriculture Union—it was mentioned earlier when Mr. Kingston appeared—most people, the population in general, trust inspectors but have a lot less trust in the companies themselves when it comes time to do inspections and talk about their health and the safety of the food they themselves eat and that they feed their families.
Obviously it's a very honourable job, but at some point, for simple economic reasons, if people begin to say that they'll make it so that companies themselves can handle their own inspections...
As far as the inspectors per se are concerned, earlier we had someone one here who works in an office. I'm not denigrating his work, I'm not saying that his work isn't important, but this person checks the information given to him by the company.
Is that how the work has become over the years? Has it become more an office job than a working job?
My question is for either one of you.