Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 February 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 31 - Transport, Tourism and Sport

9:00 am

Mr. Graham Doyle:

In regard to the regional airports programme, in order to provide the funding that the Department does provide, which is up to 75% of safety and security investment, the Department did a prior notification in relation to that to the Commission and got agreement for that programme, which I think was a five-year programme. The changes that are being made bring that about on a general basis, so, I suppose, the benefit to Ireland is that if we were in that same space again we would actually have to make a prior notification in relation to it. However, we are already doing what the changes at European level are-----