Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 26 June 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 10 - Central Government Funding of Local Authorities
Chapter 11 - Costs of Land Remediation
Vote 25 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government
12:40 pm
Mr. John McCarthy:
Absolutely. I agree that the importance of the Leader programme, particularly to rural areas, is significant. We would prefer to see the programme being rolled out in accordance with the original timeline in a way that ensures value for money, as Deputy Deasy rightly pointed out. The pick-up in spending this year is a reflection of a catching up with slower progress that gave rise to the underspend in 2012. I will ask my colleague Ms Moylette, who manages the Leader programme, to give a further flavour of some of the factors behind the underspend in 2012.
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