Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 November 2015
Public Accounts Committee
2014 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 18 - Shared Services
Vote 41 - Office of Government Procurement
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 5 - Management of Government Grants
Chapter 6 - Payroll Accrual for National Accounts
Chapter 7 - National Lottery Fund
10:00 am
John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
No, if I wanted to be brusque or to say anything about it, the Secretary General knows I would say it quite clearly.
On the other matter of looking at accounts as they are spent, I have some figures to hand from the Comptroller and Auditor General. I believe approximately €2.6 billion is going to Irish Water up to 2016 in various amounts. These are the kind of figures that frighten people, who want to feel comfort in the fact that somebody publicly will hold these people to account but the committee cannot do it directly. I encourage the Secretary General, inasmuch as he discusses policy with the political side of the house, to do so because it certainly will not go away after this meeting and people still have a concern in this regard. While I apologise for keeping Deputy Dowds waiting, can the committee publish Mr. Watt's statement?
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