Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 3 October 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 42 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 12 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 13 - Procurement without a Competitive Process
12:00 pm
Mr. Robert Watt:
Nobody knows. The rates have fallen but in Ireland they are starting to increase a little bit for two reasons: the fertility rate and the increased number of women in that age cohort. Most of the increase in births is because of an increase in the number of women in that age cohort as opposed to changes in the fertility rate, which I think is around 1.82% and has not gone up too much.
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