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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: Coincidentally, we were dealing with the issue of procurement earlier in the meeting. We have already indicated that he is going to be invited depending on the work schedule. He is not the Accounting Officer, but the head of the office. In some Departments, the Secretary General is the Accounting Officer for a couple of bodies under the Department. We need both. We will check to see...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (24 Oct 2019)
Seán Fleming: I will answer. The Accounting Officers can be compelled, but we do not ever want to go that route. He is the head of a Government office, that being, the Office of Government Procurement, and the head of the office should be here, full stop. It is proper practice. If the head of a Government office that gets voted expenditure from the Dáil feels he or she should not attend the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Seán Fleming: This morning we are meeting officials from the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine to discuss the 2018 Appropriation Accounts for Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. We will also be dealing with chapter 10 of the Comptroller and Auditor General report for 2018 in respect of forestry grants. We are joined this morning by the following officials from the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Seán Fleming: Very unexpectedly, a vote has just been called in the Dáil Chamber on the Industrial Development (Amendment) Bill, from the Seanad. Members must attend. I propose that we suspend and resume immediately after the vote. There is somebody conspiring to keep us here longer than we expected. We did not envisage this.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Seán Fleming: We are back in public session and dealing with the Vote and appropriation accounts of the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine and the chapter in the Comptroller and Auditor General's report in respect of forestry grants. We have had the opening statement from the Comptroller and Auditor General and I now ask Mr. Gleeson to make his opening statement.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Seán Fleming: The lead speaker for today's meeting is Deputy Bobby Aylward who has 20 minutes. The second speaker will be Deputy David Cullinane who will have 15 minutes. All other members will have ten minutes each and have indicated in the following sequence: Deputy Catherine Murphy, Deputy Catherine Connolly, Deputy Marc MacSharry and Deputy Kate O'Connell. We will keep strictly to the timing because...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Seán Fleming: Many people watching may not know what that scheme. I ask Mr. Gleeson to describe the scheme in order that people watching proceedings understand what we are discussing.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Seán Fleming: Farmers have been planting and drawing grants on it.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Seán Fleming: It is very much appreciated from an urban-based Deputy.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Seán Fleming: This is why we want to spell out the details of what we are talking about.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Seán Fleming: This is the Deputy's final question. I have allowed additional time.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Seán Fleming: This is the first round of questions.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Seán Fleming: Deputy Cullinane has two minutes remaining.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Seán Fleming: I know there was agreement with the recommendations but we want to see implementation. People regularly agree with something and then carry on. We want to know what is happening after the agreement.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Seán Fleming: We need Mr. Gleeson to send the committee a note on that. What is proposed is sending very strange signals from a biodiversity point of view. The category of land that has been proposed by Coillte-----
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Seán Fleming: It was not on the agenda.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Seán Fleming: The Deputy has two minutes left.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Seán Fleming: The next speaker is Deputy MacSharry. We are sticking rigidly to ten-minute slots.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Seán Fleming: I will allow the Deputy another 30 seconds on this specific issue. Mr. Gleeson referred to conditionality. Was it a condition of the scheme that farmers would be obliged to reduce their number of livestock in the coming years?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019) Seán Fleming: Is that a yes? Mr. Gleeson said "Yes".