Written answers
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
Department of Agriculture and Food
Value for Money Reviews
11:00 pm
Fergus O'Dowd (Louth, Fine Gael)
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Question 436: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food the nature and outcome of any value for money audit carried out by his Department during the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25699/09]
Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has completed and published a total of eight Value for Money reviews over the past three years. They covered the following areas of expenditure:
| Title of Review | Publication Date |
| Laboratory Facilities (Plant Health, Crops, Research & Development Grants) | February 2007 |
| Farm Waste Management | November 2007 |
| Public (Exchequer and EU) Supports for Aquaculture | June 2007 |
| Food Institutional Research Measure | February 2008 |
| Marketing and Processing | October 2008 |
| Bovine TB | November 2008 |
| Bovine Animal Identification and Traceability System | June 2009 |
| Young Farmer's Installation | June 2009 |
Each of these reviews contains a number of recommendations aimed at improving the efficiency and effectiveness of scheme delivery. To ensure that the reviews lead to enhanced value for money, I have put in place monitoring mechanisms whereby recommendations contained in all completed reviews are centrally monitored and analysed with regard to their implementation or use for future policy design. All completed reviews are published on my Department's website and are also forwarded for scrutiny to the Joint Committee on Agriculture and Food and both Houses of the Oireachtas.
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