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:

That is a different issue. I will ask Dr. Beamish to help me here if I do not explain this adequately. Essentially, we have a reasoned opinion against us because we do not have a points regime in place and, therefore, the Commission has withheld funding from us. Sorry, that is a separate issue.

The reasoned opinion is because we do not have that points legislation. We now have a statutory instrument that gives us one part of that picture and today, in the Oireachtas, the first step in pre-legislative scrutiny took place for the second part of that legislation.

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