Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 27 February 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Farm Foresty Partnership Agreements: Discussion
3:30 pm
Michelle Mulherin (Fine Gael)
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I have a supplementary question to the Chairman's question. KPMG has been retained to conduct an audit. Is KPMG, in essence, going to look at the figures and see if the bottom-line figure deposited in the farmers' bank accounts is correct? Is this the case? KPMG will not be adjudicating on the fairness or otherwise of contract terms. That is a whole different ball game. We could have a situation where Coillte is shown to be correct, but that does not mean the terms were not unclear or unfair with regard to management-----