Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 October 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Vote 11 - Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Collection of Pension Contributions due to the Exchequer
Chapter 3 - Control of Funding for Voted Public Services
Chapter 5 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Vote 11 - Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 95: Financial Reporting in the Public Sector
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 99: Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 100: Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2016
9:00 am
Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
The Secretary General concluded by paying tribute to the team in the Department. Exchanges at the committee are often robust and adversarial, particularly when I am involved, but I wish to say that Mr. Watt and his team do a very good job. That is probably not stated often enough by me or the committee.
On the accounts generally, Mr. Watt alluded to the fact that it looks good that the Department returns money every year. For the benefit of those watching, is the Department budgeting incorrectly or is it particularly efficient and producing surpluses which it is able to return? The amounts of money in question are not huge, namely, €4 million, €2.5 million and approximately €1 million over the past three years.
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