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

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9:00 am

Mr. Aidan O'Driscoll:

Yes, but that was in the first year of the new CAP. In that period, we had a lot of unused entitlements flowing into the system. The other mechanism that can be used to fund the national reserve is by effectively taking a slice off everybody.

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