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:

No. The second duplicate payment was to another State agency, Bord Bia, for its quality assurance scheme. We made an advance payment the previous year which was notified on the file, but the payment the following year was made in full without regard to the fact that we had already made an advance payment. Again, it was recovered immediately. It was approximately €1 million. They were the two instances. We have changed our processes to make sure there is more supervision of those things so they cannot happen again.