Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 September 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment

10:00 am

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

I do not have the detail. That is something the Deputy would have to get from the Accounting Officer for the Office of Public Works. One thing the Deputy should bear in mind is that the expenditure is on a cash basis so if, for example, there were significant building works or adjustments made within a year, the full cost of that would be charged here. We would not be looking at the depreciation figure or whatever. There can be lumpy patterns in the spending because it is cash. I know that a substantial part of that is the maintenance and upkeep of the buildings and the grounds of the Áras.

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