Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 May 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed)

9:00 am

Dr. Seán Brady:

I will take the question on strategic planning. I would also like to apologise to Deputy Aylward, because he asked a question that completely threw us the last day. I am unsure whether you were here at the time, Chairman. He asked about 2003 and 2017. We were thrown by that. In fact, there was an error on the recommendation, in my opinion, anyway. It was for 2013.

A strategic plan was prepared in 2013. It was followed by the Indecon report. Then, in 2015 a detailed plan was submitted to the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in May 2015. We are following that plan. As a point of interest, the sale of Harold's Cross was one of the items in that strategic plan.