Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 July 2024
Public Accounts Committee
2022 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
9:30 am
Mr. Brendan Gleeson:
Yes. Two payments were involved. One was from our payroll. We have obligations to make payments to the Revenue Commissioners for the various deductions we make. It is an automated system, but this was down to human error and process. Two separate individuals made a manual payment and an automated payment in respect of the same thing to the Revenue Commissioners. It was noticed more or less immediately and recovered. It was a payment of approximately €6 million.