Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 24 October 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants
9:00 am
Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source
I will leave that one for the moment. I will move on to the forestry grants. There is a reference to "an external party" on page 149 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. Chapter 10.20 states:
The Government has indicated that it intends to review the grant application process. In July 2019, it commissioned an external party to analyse the process undertaken by the Department in the approval of forestry planting applications.
Was that done? If so, when? Where is it? The number of applications for afforestation was much lower than had been anticipated or expected. Has that review been done?
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