Alan Dillon (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the witnesses. I will raise the matter of the Department's receipt of substantial funding from the EU on an annual basis. In 2021, the Department recorded that it managed more than €1.5 billion in EU supports across the various sectors for which it is responsible. Programme B, farm sector support and controls, states "a charge to the Vote ... for EU Funding which has been disallowed due to conformity clearance decisions and ... late payments." Will the Accounting Officer explain why €5.7 million of EU funding was disallowed?