Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Yes, across Departments. In addition to that, because I was conscious of the fact that the Department of Education and Skills, the teachers, and the Garda Síochána were not included in that figure, I asked the Comptroller and Auditor General about it. He said that in regard to the Garda Síochána, prisons, education and Army pensions, there is another €8 million in uncollected overpayments in respect of salaries and pensions in those Departments. The total figure on the schedule we got last night now comes to €15.633 million of uncollected overpayments of salaries and pensions across all Departments. That is three times higher than the figure we spent several hours discussing last week. Everything that was said here last week was correct and accurate. All I am saying is that it just was not the full picture. There was nothing said that was not accurate. It twigged with me at the end of the meeting that there was probably a lot not in here, so the €15.633 figure is the full picture and that schedule has been supplied to members today.

I want to go through the key figures in that schedule that were not discussed the last day. The reason I am doing it is because it is totally relevant to last week's meeting. The Comptroller and Auditor General will come back with an exact report. The first one I want to highlight is the Office of the Revenue Commissioners where there are uncollected overpayments of €1.512 million in respect of 1,000 people, which is an average of €1,414 per person.