Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 21 March 2017

Select Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Revised)

4:00 pm

Photo of Charlie McConalogueCharlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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I know we will not be sure until we get the final information but I want to clarify the drawdown of the loan maximising the €25 million being invested by the EU and the State? The answer is yes or no in respect of how the Department structured it. If it did not provide for a certain percentage being one, two or three year terms I put it to the Minister that much of that value is being under-utilised.