Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Page 12 relates to dividends from State companies. I am not quite clear in my own mind about the differentiation between State agencies and companies. Does the Comptroller and Auditor General audit both? I can see in the documentation that some companies paid a dividend in 2019. Possibly, that situation will be changed considerably in 2020 because of under-performance caused by Covid-19.

Some State agencies or enterprises are technically supposed to be commercially run but there is no obligation on them to pay a dividend to the State and for some of them that would not be appropriate.

I picked out in particular the Irish Greyhound Board. For example, Abargrove seems to be a company within a company. It is the catering section in Limerick Stadium and it is a separate company to the stadium itself. Is that audited separately?