Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 October 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding
9:30 am
Mr. David Moloney:
Yes. The view that the Department of Finance at the time took was that there had been no agreement to increase the charge.
That is where the dispute arose. As Deputy Dillon knows, general elections take place at short notice. There was not an agreement in time to allow communications to go ahead. It was not viewed as feasible to stop the communications, so we had a situation where a service was delivered but there was a dispute about the price. The amount we paid at that point was based on the 2011 price.
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