Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 March 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 27 - International Co-operation
Vote 28 - Foreign Affairs and Trade
Chapter 13 - Official Development Assistance

12:10 pm

Mr. David Cooney:

I simply do not understand how this could operate, with each officer's individual circumstances being interrogated. I do not know how many properties my colleagues own or how much rental income they have. I do not know their living circumstances. If we get to a point where everybody must be interrogated about their living circumstances at home before the Department can pay their accommodation abroad, I do not know how we would operate.

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