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. Seamus McCarthy:
An inspector can only extrapolate from a random sample. This is the type of point we have made in respect of Revenue and the Department of Social Protection. My understanding is that a scheme-wide fine would have to be based on random samples. They would have to turn up that way with 90% having no problem and perhaps 10% problematic, or whatever the figure may be.
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