Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 October 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Teagasc Financial Statements 2017

9:00 am

Professor Gerry Boyle:

I will clarify our attempts and determination in recent years to build up a small capital reserve. This is for managing cashflow. We do not spend these resources on current expenditure. It is simply to manage the gap between the timing of doing the work and getting the income in. That is the problem we have. A company in this situation would normally have overdraft facilities. We do not have overdraft facilities.