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. Seamus McCarthy:

It might be worth pointing out that the charge for legal costs for the fishery harbour centres case was almost half of the legal costs that are presented. There was an element of compensation paid and that is charged to the fishery harbour centres fund but the legal costs were borne by the Department and they account for nearly half of that figure. It was a very long-running case that went to the Supreme Court. There is further detail in the fishery harbour centres account about that case.