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

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Gleeson can send us a note on that. I wish to make one last point before I call Deputy Burke. Obviously, there is an issue with the 2015 audited accounts and they are nearly here. Far more important is the question of the 2016 management accounts. Getting the 2015 accounts alone will not be much good.

The Estimates for this year are going through the Dáil at the moment. Before the Department agrees to hand out a further €14 million, it will have to examine up-to-date 2016 financial figures. These figures may not be audited but the management accounts should be close enough to the final accounts. We will ask Mr. O'Driscoll not only to give us a copy of the 2015 figures but to give us an up-to-date financial report, notwithstanding the fact they are not audited. That is the information on which decisions are being made at the moment. I am referring to the 2016 outcome.

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