Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 July 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2015 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 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 95: Financial Reporting in the Public Sector
9:00 am
Mr. Robert Watt:
We are dealing with a new situation in having a Minister who is responsible for both Departments and we are working through that. There are no issues as such that have come up. The concern in the past has always been that when there was one Minister for spending and one for revenue that there would not be the same level of integration or coherence because the budget needs to be considered in the round. Having one Minister responsible for both sides of it should help in that respect. Things are moving along. We are busy with the Minister in the preparations for the budget and we are all engaged in that. There is no immediate issue that is problematic for us. We have the senior Minister and we also have three Ministers of State over the two Departments, which helps with the workload.
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