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
Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
These are four items that are not linked. This is what is crazy about this. What we have in the NSSO is a basket case with regard to financial procedures. What is going on here is crazy. Let us focus on one of them. The chargeable excess tax only applies when the pension pot is more than €2 million. One individual had a chargeable excess that was not deducted from them of €280,000. That means that is a whopper of a pension. We are talking Secretaries General with swings and roundabouts here. Can I ask this?
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