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
Bobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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My time is running out and I want to ask a few more questions. A total of €100 million was handed back or was not spent last year and €20 million was carried over into this year from last year. Why was that? It was a bad year for farming but €300 million went back into the coffers that could have been spent. Why is that happening? Why is the money not being spent?