Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 12 July 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts (Resumed)
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency (Resumed)
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (Resumed)
9:00 am
Mr. Conor O'Kelly:
There is a real increase. I will let Mr. Breen take the question. It is a fundamental question about the rate of return that is assumed and used with regard to lump sum payments, in particular, and to calculate what that lump sum should be, one has to have an implied future rate of return that could be earned on what is called a risk free or low risk rate. That rate has been set higher and therefore any lump sum payment would be made higher. Even in retrospect, as I know Mr. Breen will refer to, there were many cases which were settled with potential adjustment to any future change in the rate of return.
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