Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 29 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Brexit Adjustment Reserve Fund: Discussion

Mr. Gordon Conroy:

It relates, by and large, to the fisheries sector and the Brexit adjustment local authority marine infrastructure, BALAMI, fund to try to encourage and facilitate the completion of these projects across the country.

In this regard, some expenditure was moved from the Department for projects that had already been approved. Because of planning difficulties and other issues around the completion of projects, in relation to procurement, for example, we paid moneys out to BIM, for a very limited time, where we have confidence that these projects would be completed in the first quarter of next year and then be eligible to put into our claim for 30 September.