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. Hubert Loftus:
There are over 90 schools in that sector and they have public indemnity. The taxpayer does not have to fund insurance costs for that sector but the alternative is that we have to pick up the legal costs based on the advice of the State Claims Agency which negotiates them on behalf of the taxpayer.
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