Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 October 2021
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Chapter 9 - Remediation of Landfill Sites
9:30 am
Mr. Mark Griffin:
These are Exchequer extra receipts from the auction of allowances by the EPA, and the EPA administers the EU emissions trading system and acts as an auctioneer for Ireland. The revenue generated in the Exchequer extra receipts is actually revenue from the auctions undertaken by the EPA which comes back into the Central Fund and which is not hypothecated but is allocated notionally to climate-related activities. For example, the SEAI programmes and school transport are programmes that would-----