Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 March 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills
9:00 am
Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:
It is part of the engagement of government. On the capital side especially, there can be occasions where we can get some additional one-off funding. The advantage of Supplementary Estimates in the capital space is that they do not have continuing costs, which are a continuing ongoing cost. It has been the case that we have been fortunate enough to have Supplementary Estimates in the capital space on a number of occasions. For example, it could give rise to us being able to bring more schools to construction than we would initially have been able to bring to construction. The summer works comprise another example.
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