Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 20 April 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2019 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

6:30 pm

Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

This is one of the practicalities of dealing with Covid. These are charges on small businesses and fishermen. We have done a review. Obviously the review applies an inflationary increase to the fees, which have not increased for a long time. Our view is that this is not the time to impose additional charges on those small businesses, so we will not do that for the moment. The "when" is a difficult question. There will come a point at which we feel it is appropriate to revisit this but right now is not the time to do that.

Comments

No comments

Log in or join to post a public comment.