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- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: There is another committee meeting next door which is complaining about the European Union bullying the banks. Now Mr. O'Driscoll is saying we were bullied in agriculture. I cannot resist making the comparison.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: Is that figure included in the Department's Estimates for this year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: That is, the interest cost. To finish on the superlevy, I ask the Department to supply a breakdown of the number of farmers affected by a levy of €5,000 or less, between €5,000 and €10,000 and so on. It must have all of these statistics, but I do not want to delay the meeting by asking the witnesses to read the figures. I ask that they supply the data to the committee...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: If 6,000 farmers are carrying a debt of €69 million, it averages out at a sum of around €10,000 per farmer. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: That is a serous amount of money for those affected. The tragedy is that they are probably our most progressive farmers, the ones who are trying to expand and produce more.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: On page 3 of the appropriation accounts I was surprised to read that the Department was in breach of national procurement guidelines to the tune of €5 million in 19 specific cases, or an average of €263,000 per case. In addition, there are other local historical supplier arrangements that are outside national procurement guidelines. Of the 19 cases referred to, what was the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: I will not ask Mr. O'Driscoll to repeat himself.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: On farm inspections, I received a reply to a parliamentary question from the Department yesterday. In cross-compliance inspections in 2014, of which there were 1,368, 26% of farms were given a clean bill of health, with no breaches; on 36% of farms there were minor breaches, with no financial penalty, while on 38% of farms there were breaches involving penalties. There were 4,743...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: For what year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: What is the amount per annum and does the Department have a contingent liability included in its figures?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: Have we paid any of the €180 million fine?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: We have not paid any of the fines since 2008. Is that the case?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: Under cross-compliance-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: What is it based on?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: That is extrapolated based on the Department's sample. Is that the case?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: This is what I am coming at. Is Mr. O'Driscoll saying the Department has collected the fines from the farmer, but the State has not paid the money to Europe yet?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: What does that mean? They pay it?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: No, they pay the money to the Department.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: Does the Department submit that onwards?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (18 Jun 2015) Seán Fleming: My question is as simple as this. Cross-compliance inspections are done in 1% of farms. That is the figure Mr. O'Driscoll read out. It amounts to 1,368, and 38% of these had fines. Does Europe not say to the Department that the figure should be extrapolated to everywhere else? In the other area there is a 5% inspection figure. The Department does 5,000 or 6,000 inspections and finds...