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
Ms Paula Lyons:
It is, but in the context of the total pay bill, it is a small percentage. There have been some changes this year that will assist us in getting the recoupment process up and running and having the money paid back more quickly. Auto-recoupment means that if there is a recoupment for less than five days, there is now an automatic process. We do not need to go through stages of the agreement process on the value of the overpayment or to set a plan for recoupment. There has also been a change in respect of the value of the overpayment. It had been calculated with either a gross or a net value. That has been changed in this year's legislation to a net value only. That speeds up the calculation of the overpayment.
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