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

Photo of Catherine ConnollyCatherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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Of that figure. The figure for claims by the public is €134,000. Does Mr. O'Driscoll see in the report that the legal costs in respect of these claims were phenomenal? If one looks at the claims by employees under the Vote, one sees that the legal costs for the Department are €92,000 for 183 cases. Then if one looks further, one sees €317,000 for 14 cases taken by members of the public.