Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Select Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 11 - Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (Revised)
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances (Revised)
Vote 14 - State Laboratory (Revised)
Vote 15 - Secret Service (Revised)
Vote 17 - Public Appointments Service (Revised)
Vote 18 - National Shared Services Office (Revised)
Vote 19 - Office of the Ombudsman (Revised)
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement (Revised)
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer (Revised)
2:00 am
Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
The pool that has been identified as potentially being affected is the 13,000 that have to be checked. The expectation in the NSSO is that it will be a much smaller number than that. The scoping exercise is under way. The NSSO is trying to automate some of the scoping exercise. Some of this goes back 20 years and some of it relates to paper records and records that pre-existed the NSSO itself. I and my officials have highlighted the absolute urgency to check that but it is a significant number so we do not yet know the number affected. What is most important is that whoever is owed a particular liability is paid for that. That is what the priority has been in the context of what was discovered. It is still very much a live issue.
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