Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 November 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
9:00 am
Mr. Mark Griffin:
The first fund is known as the petroleum infrastructure programme - expanded offshore support group, PIP - EOSG. There is a licence condition attached to all frontier exploration licences. Each of the companies has to pay €17,742 each year into a fund that is generally used for environmental research.
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