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)
No. What happened was that a pension appeal decision was issued to the NSSO in 2017 and that determination was made at that point. It took the NSSO until July 2024 to query if the approach following the appeal in 2017 should apply to a broader group. There was then interaction between the NSSO and the Department last year on the application of the allowances, which concluded earlier this year. The gap between that is of concern and that is why we need to have an external audit.
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