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:

It is undesirable that money would be left behind in a national Vote but there is no question of leaving money behind in the context of the multi-annual programme of which GLAS is a part. Every scintilla of EU funding will be drawn down to support GLAS. We would have preferred to be able to pay everybody that year. We made a-----