Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 8 May 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Forest Strategy Implementation Plan: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Mr. Brendan Gleeson:
We went through a process. This does not happen in a vacuum. It happens in the context of state aid rules and national budgetary requirements. We have to go to the Department of Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform for approval. It looks at our expenditure profiles over a period and approves something like this. It wants the payments to be manageable in the context of the overall public expenditure profile. That is the reason it is in three payments.