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:
Yes. It refers to a number of contracts which did not go out to tender, essentially. On procurement we spent €92 million in total on 2,300 unique vendors, but what the Comptroller and Auditor General was calling attention to was 34 contracts amounting to €1.7 billion where-----