Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 15 December 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works
Chapter 8 - Contract payments in respect of Convention Centre Dublin
9:30 am
Matt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
We are aware of many cases in which there is an obligation on the State to hand over money. Sometimes there would be questions at this committee and elsewhere as to the rational basis for it. We would be told consistently that if there is a legal obligation to pay a sum of money, regardless of what it is, it has to be paid, almost aside from anything else.
Could the Comptroller and Auditor General give a view on whether Covid provides a context for State bodies to pay to private contractors money that they are not obliged to pay?
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