Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 29 November 2016
Joint Oireachtas Committee on European Union Affairs
Annual Report 2015: Discussion with European Court of Auditors
4:00 pm
Mr. Gerhard Ross:
There was a question concerning the misinterpretation of complex rules. It is just that in our annual reports for several years now we have said, for example in relation to social funds, that the use of a simplified cost option brings down the error rate and that when simplified cost options like lump sums and other things are used, this reduces the error. This possibility exists also in agriculture, but while there is a certain reluctance to use it, we also see there that if is used properly it can bring down error. As such, that is an option to simplify things and reduce the error.