Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 May 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2020 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
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
9:30 am
Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Sorry. My understanding of it is this. If a senior civil servant, in general, says he or she is gifting back €50,000 or €80,000 of his or her gross salary to the State, why can there not be some paper trail of that or evidence to show it is happening? I am not asking a question and, in my memory, this committee or any member of it has never asked a question, about the net effect of that on the person's take-home pay and his or her net income. What we are asking about relates to that gross figure. Surely, there should be some paper trail for it relating to the gross effect of that or, in other words, if someone states he or she is surrendering €50,000, €70,000, €80,000 or whatever.
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