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:

As I said, we are unfortunately from time to time involved in many legal cases and we must keep an element of the Vote to cover liabilities that may arise for legal cases. Obviously, one cannot predict in advance the cost that will arise, so we estimate it as best we can and account for it in our Vote.