Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 February 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector
9:00 am
Mr. Seamus McCarthy:
The additional figure is €1.2 billion on consolidation. Explanatory note 6.1 is provided in order that there is some opportunity for the committee to discuss these amounts with the Department, but there is a separate accounting system for them under EU rules. The Secretary General will be able to elaborate further.
There are other funds that come from the EU. A number of years ago, it was agreed that there would be a consolidation account to give a view to the committee of EU transfers to Ireland that did not go through appropriation accounts. That account is produced and it is audited by me. It is submitted. I do not recall when it was noted by the committee.
It was just signed at the end of the year, was it not?I do not think it has been presented yet but it can come before the committee for examination.
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