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 incur lump sum expenditures of this nature every year because there are civil servants who retire. For the year 2015, we forecasted 950 to retire. We underestimated that. I think there were 1,170 civil servants who eventually retired. Those people received a lump sum. The pensions for widows and children of civil servants is the particular payment the Deputy mentioned. That is for established civil servants and people who are-----
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