Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 24 October 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants
9:00 am
Mr. Brendan Gleeson:
It is difficult to know. A scheme is configured to allow for the maximum number of eligible animals, and that is what we did. We wanted to be in a position to be able to pay every potential applicant without cutting payments. Demands were placed on people under the scheme. It was not just income support.