Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 22 October 2020
Public Accounts Committee
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Accounting for Capital Assets
Chapter 5 - Accounting for Allied Services
11:30 am
Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source
I thank the witnesses for coming in. They will not have seen me before. Sticking to pensions, we can see from the single public service pension scheme that in 2013, it took three years for anything to happen in 2016 with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and it has been underestimated every year since. Can the witnesses give me the reason that it is continually underestimated as it is causing significant difficulties in the Department's report? It is the only matter that is accepted by the Minister as a pure recommendation but there are 24 bodies, if I am correct, that have identified difficulty because of it.
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