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

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Around 7 p.m. It will be in the evening time. I have a few questions to put. I thank the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine for all the documentation and for the annual report. Everything in here is clear and all of that, but I am kind of surprised by it and I think others will be surprised by it as well. I am reading straight from the annual report, and if I am correct in my reading of page 9 of same, we exported 7 million tonnes of agrifood products in 2018. I am going by the chart on page 9 of the Department's 2018 annual report. Is that figure of 7 million tonnes correct? It says 7 million tonnes on the right hand side of the chart. My questions are on these three or four pages, so we will try to get page 9 up on the screen.

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