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:
That is the programme body that is involved in managing the two main North-South programmes, the INTERREG programme and the peace and reconciliation programme. It is one of the bodies established under the Good Friday Agreement. The projects manage the applications process, so in effect there are two funds with various strands to them and various different themes are set out. The SEUPB organises the process of inviting grant applications, vetting grants and allocating the money. The accountability mechanism, as the Deputy will probably recall, reports to our Department and our counterpart in Northern Ireland, the Department of Finance and Personnel, DFP, and the two relevant Ministers have overall responsibility for its management.
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