Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 June 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine

9:00 am

Photo of Bobby AylwardBobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Finally, €24 million was unspent. Unspent money is not good, especially when schemes such as GLAS are underfunded. In the agri-environmental schemes sub-heading, the Estimate provision for GLAS was €245 million and only €225 million was spent. My understanding was that more people wanted to get into GLAS so why was there an underspend on the scheme? It states that the IT systems were not in place and that "... only 76 percent of applicants passed the pre-payments checks against the 85 percent [pass level]". How did it come about that it was not up to scratch, so to speak?

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