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. Ruairí de Búrca:
We have many hundreds of grants a year. What one thinks what will spend on 1 January is not necessarily what one's outturn is. We try to balance it and reprofile during the year, but there is always a margin on foot of due diligence, prudence or because something is finished. As such, the €2 million is probably made up of a number of different transactions which undercut it.