Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 July 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 95: Financial Reporting in the Public Sector
9:00 am
Mr. Robert Watt:
It was set up as part of the Good Friday Agreement, which was in 1998. It was set up to manage the INTERREG North-South programme and the Programme for Peace and Reconciliation funds. It is a body which, on behalf of the authorities on both sides of the Border, manages the programme. There are many cross-Border projects and projects along the Border. The body sets out, with agreement of the Ministers, a broad strategy and then manages the drawdown of the funds. It invites applications from a variety of different community and other groups to access the funding, it assesses applications, it manages the payments and ensures that the recipients of grants actually deliver on what they said they would. SEUPB manages the expenditure on these programmes. Its work, as I mentioned, is accountable to both Ministers.
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