Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 June 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
9:00 am
Mr. Brendan Gleeson:
I will be a little circumspect about what I say about these cases but I will try to give a flavour of what is in there. With regard to litigation that concluded during 2017, there was a case that involved one of the farmers on the Cooley Peninsula and related to compensation paid in 2001 for foot and mouth disease. There was, for example, a case taken by a contractor on the basis of what he regarded as a change in his conditions of engagement. There was a case involving a ferry company relating to the nature of the departmental fees charged for ferries. There were a number of fisheries cases where people regarded departmental action against the fisheries as-----