Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 June 2015

Public Accounts Committee

2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine

10:00 am

Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:

It is an audit process. The Commission representatives can decide to do whatever they want when they arrive. It depends on what they are auditing. They do not go to every country every year. An audit team arrives and, like any audit team, they do not give us much indication in advance of what exactly they want to look at. Then, on day one, they tell us they want to look at this, that and the other. If that involves a sample of farms, we will draw the sample and give it to them. They will travel around the country and visit those firms. I am sure farmers enjoy that experience tremendously.

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