Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 February 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 10: Shared Services - Management of Salary Overpayments
Appropriation Accounts 2016
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office

9:00 am

Ms Hilary Murphy-Fagan:

Thankfully, that confusion has gone away because we have clarified what the responsibilities are. Certainly, there was confusion at a point in time, particularly for the bodies that transferred earlier. Those cases came across to the NSSO. For Departments that transferred more recently to us, first of all, we have clarified in the service management agreement exactly what the responsibilities are in relation to legacy cases. Second, for those cases that may be sitting with a payroll office in a Department if they are transitioning in, they are clear that it is their responsibility to calculate the value of the overpayment. Given that earlier I stated that all of the Departments in scope have now transitioned in to us, the issue of legacy cases is a very small one at this stage. We have a small number of legacy cases.

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