Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 10 July 2025
Public Accounts Committee
2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management
2:00 am
Ms Bernie Kelly:
Since we had the direction on the issue in terms of the correct calculation, we have undertaken a review. We do not believe it will be near €13,000.
We have started by identifying cohorts within that and we will be working on the first cohort, which contains about 2,000, over the next weeks. We are trying to automate the solutions so we are testing over the next few weeks to validate that we will able to get that correctly. We have put a programme of communication under way since the issue was raised. We spoke to colleagues in the Retired Civil and Public Servants Association, RCPSA, a few weeks ago about the issue, to clarify it. The association has since put two statements on its website stating that no action is required by anybody on their behalf, and that we will reach out and communicate. We continue to engage with the stakeholders and we will advise them of the progress we are making.
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