David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

If we cover this as a chapter in the periodic report, there are two separate issues. There is the overall figure for overpayment captured across the entire public service and State agencies; and there is process as to why some are and some are not under the National Shared Services Office. There could be logic, for example with Garda and Army pensions, as to why they are not covered. Before we report on it, we will need to have officials from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform appear before the committee to explain what scoping exercise they did and the rationale for the inclusion or non-inclusion of some so that we are informed. We are not informed and it would not be fair for us to report on it.