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
Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source
That is a huge increase. We should not be having the problems that we are having. I would appreciate those figures in the coming days.
The other question I want to touch on is one Deputy Carthy raised about today's report from the Commission. There are two points about this. The Sea Fisheries Protection Authority, SFPA, spent €1.47 million on legal fees in 2019. It spent €731,000 in 2018 on internal audits. In Oireachtas grants, it got €13 million from the Department in 2019 and €10.3 million from the Department in 2018. How can we spend so much money on a regulatory agency and end up with a fine of €40 million?
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