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. Aidan O'Driscoll:
A sum of €34.692 million. In 2016, €61 million was spent. Obviously, as 2015 was the first year of the scheme, it was only kicking in and getting into gear. Overall, we had 29,000 applicants to participate in the BDGP, of whom 24,000 carried through to payment. Obviously, there is a dropout rate in a very demanding scheme such as this.
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