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

Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

It is a demand-led scheme. We have already had a long discussion about the difficulty in meeting our targets under the forestry programme; therefore, there was reduced expenditure on afforestation.

On our capital investment schemes in agriculture, we are depending on people to execute approvals and new approvals. For example, we would have anticipated approvals to have matured in that year, but some of them did not. Nevertheless, we had to make prudent provision for the expenditure we thought would arise in that year. They are the principal items, but there were many other smaller underspends.

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