Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 November 2020

Public Accounts Committee

2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund

11:30 am

Mr. John McCarthy:

I will come back to the Deputy formally with an explanation but I think the figures he is referring to start at 2015. It could easily have been that there was a one-off issue in 2015 because the figure comes down and then stabilises on the basis of the figures in later years. It is possible that it was a one-off but I will ask my colleagues to firm up on that and come back to Deputy Colm Burke in writing.