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Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: The lead speaker today is Deputy Catherine Murphy, who has 20 minutes. The second speaker is Deputy Bobby Aylward. Deputies Marc MacSharry and David Cullinane have also indicated and will have ten minutes each.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: Will Mr. Gleeson explain that? He said some emissions cannot be traded.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: Last week, we had a situation about tet trading of emissions. For the benefit of the public, will Mr. Gleeson explain the difference?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: What is in the traded area?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: That is the Department of energy-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: We will write to that Department for a note on the breakdown between those emissions that can be traded where we can buy our way out of not meeting our targets versus certain areas like agriculture that Mr. Gleeson mentioned where we cannot buy our way out if we do not meet the targets. It is not Mr. Gleeson's Department so we will write to the Secretary General of the Department of...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: Very good.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: In the meantime, we will ask for a short report.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: It would help the members too.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: Exactly. The-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: To what is the Deputy referring?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: Thank you. I am not familiar to it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: Is the Deputy asking Bord na gCon to send it to us?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: Is it the Department's report?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: The people who prepared the report are the people we should contact.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: Was Mr. Gleeson aware of the contents of the report before the 2019 Estimates were agreed?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: Is there anything in the report Mr. Gleeson wishes he was aware of when the Department was preparing the Estimates for last year and this year? The Department appears before a select committee to discuss its Estimate and we go into the Dáil to vote on it on the basis of this year or last year and what the Department believes to be the case. Two years after the fact the Department now...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: Does Mr. Gleeson get the point we make?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: Can Mr. Gleeson reassure us in that regard?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine (20 Jun 2019)

Seán Fleming: Yes.