Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 October 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

2014 Pre-Budget Briefing: Discussion with Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine

10:40 am

Photo of Éamon Ó CuívÉamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for coming in and providing the information. We got a lot more detailed information last year, however, and it was much easier to work out the figures. I presume the Department still has what used be called an NPC, or no policy change, and which later changed to an ELS, or existing level of service. It would be very useful to get a breakdown of the expected outturn for 2013 and the ELS for 2014, in other words, what happens if there is no change. That gives us the list of figures which the Minister provided. We got a lot of detail about the administration, but we have been told that if there are any further administrative savings, they go back to the Exchequer. That is the usual craic. I am particularly interested in-----

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