Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 February 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector
9:00 am
Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:
No, to be clear, the disallowance, for example, refers across Pillars 1 and 2. I know this stuff is a bit arcane but nevertheless when the Comptroller and Auditor General referred to the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund, EAGF, and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, EAFRD, which are two EU funds, the EAGF is Pillar 1 and the EAFRD is Pillar 2. The disallowance refers across but when a disallowance is paid by the Exchequer it materialises on the Vote as an amount.