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:

Some of the properties have been under licence for a long time, mainly to public bodies. Essentially, they come to the same thing. They are long-term formal arrangements. One of the difficulties we have had, which has been aired previously at this committee, is that some of the properties have been rented out for a long period but without formal lease. This is something that we are trying to rectify. We are gradually working our way through that.