Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 May 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015

9:00 am

Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

I am not sure I can add clarity but I will try. There is a business plan from 2012 to 2017. The landscape has changed utterly since then. We did receive alternative figures in 2015, a kind of update in light of proposals to sell Harold's Cross. As a condition of the provision of funding this year, we have asked for a comprehensive business plan to be prepared in 2017. The original one was to expire anyway in 2017. The reality is that between 2014 and now, there has been a roadmap outlined for the development of the sector and its preservation, to be frank, and that has been the Indecon report. The board has an action plan for the implementation of Indecon. In terms of what the agriculture committee asked for, I am not sure what Deputy Aylward is reading from but the convention is that a committee would request somebody to come in and present to it on business proposals.