Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 June 2015

Public Accounts Committee

2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine

10:00 am

Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:

Very little, although obviously there are basic facts. A good example is what I have just said about the appeal. It is not untrue to say that the case failed on appeal but it is very important to understand why that happened. We did not contest the appeal because the legal provision had failed at that point. We could not contest the appeal if it was not about the substance. This is an area where a kind of truth was told to the committee but without context. However, some very serious and scandalous stuff was said about some of our staff.