Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 4 May 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres

9:30 am

Mr. Brendan Gleeson:

I will ask Mr. Hayes to come in shortly, but first I will make the point that we can only process licences that come into us. That is a voluntary activity. We do not plant trees and we do not build the forest roads. We do not do any of this. It is based on the applications.