Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 21 June 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 14 - Control of Ireland's Bilateral Assistance Programme
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
9:00 am
Mr. Seamus McCarthy:
The Deputy raised an issue around the surrender. There is in Vote 27 a special provision which is not in use in other Votes whereby there is a buffer in relation to bilateral and other co-operation grant funding. If it is not all used, it does not get surrendered. That is a special concession from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.