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:

We have a contingency, for example, for potential EU disallowances but it is a fairly nominal amount. We have a large Vote amounting to a gross figure of €1.4 billion and when something like what the Deputy mentions arises, it is either managed from within the Vote or there is a negotiation with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. We do not have a specific contingency set aside for weather-related events.