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Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: When will they be published?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I have been through this process. I was in the Cabinet. When will the Department bring them forward?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: It would not be difficult to have something like this placed on it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I have to stop Mr. O'Driscoll because we only have a certain amount of time and he is not addressing the issue. When my colleague, Deputy Peter Burke, asked if Mr. O'Driscoll was aware of any issue regarding the accounts for 2015, I was not satisfied with his answer. I will, therefore, give him a second chance to answer it because I he prevaricated. Is he aware of any issue that needed to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: Does anyone else want to respond? Does Mr. Gleeson want to respond? We have a job to do with the facts before us. We know that there are some historical issues that have to be dealt with and that there are issues that will be pulled out through the media. Does anyone in the delegation have any concern about the actions and behaviour of Bord na gCon senior executives regarding the accounts...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I asked a specific question.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: The question I have asked is incredibly broad and gives Mr. O'Driscoll as the Accounting Officer and Mr. Gleeson as the person with line command an opportunity to outline the position. I do not want them to be exhaustive. If they have issues, they have an opportunity to outline them here, even if they only want to outline one, two or three of them. I do not want to be in a position where I...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: What are they?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: Did the Harold's Cross stadium board sign off on the sale of the stadium?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I understand that, but I am a former Cabinet Minister and know what the situation is in the Department with regard to the Accounting Officer and the members of the management team dealing with all of the agencies under the Department. I can tell Mr. O'Driscoll straight that if I was the Minister, I would be having words with my Secretary General, assistant secretaries and principal officers...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: As there are eight or nine representatives present, can somebody step out and make a telephone call?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: Will they do it now, please, and return with the answer?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: It is extraordinary. With regard to Bord na gCon, prize money dropped from €12.7 million to €7.8 million between 2007 and 2013. That is an example which shows where the industry is going. We all know the issues. It is obvious that I have huge concerns about the industry. I also have huge concerns about the breeding industry. Many people have spoken to me about the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: We are going to have to come back to this issue and the decision-making in respect of Harold's Cross needs to be looked at again. Bord na gCon made the decision but were the procedures of the Harold's Cross board adhered to? Did it make the decision beforehand? I ask Mr. O'Driscoll to look at this immediately and suspend any action until, as the Accounting Officer, he is satisfied that all...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: CEDRA is the report on developing business in rural Ireland. How much funding has the Department put into CEDRA and how is it being used? Is this funding appropriate? How often has the interdepartmental group met recently?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I know that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: How many times has it met?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: Social farming etc.

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: How much was it?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 7 - EU Refunds and Levies in the Agriculture Sector (16 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I am a former Minister whose Department was responsible for this, and I found the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine quite unwilling to progress it on the scale which was necessary. The Department needs to change its attitude to CEDRA and the whole Department needs to realign itself, given the challenges we face as a country, not just with Brexit but in repositioning our country...