Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 February 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment
Vote 2 - Department of the Taoiseach

9:00 am

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am not saying that this is the fault of any one individual but it is reasonable for us to ask the question at this point. We have a commission that was established and given terms of reference for which the budget was an estimated cost of less than €5 million. The estimated cost is now €20 million, which indicates to me that there is a problem. I attended one meeting and I can have my own perspective and others will have theirs but from Mr. Fraser's perspective, as the Accounting Officer for the Department of the Taoiseach, how have we arrived at a situation where the cost has increased from less than €5 million to €20 million?

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