Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 February 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills

11:00 am

Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:

I accept that and I do not mean to say that we have made a decision. I think we are in a position on the publication of the sensitive information that it is not a simple decision that either we can take or the NDFA or the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. It is a, kind of, joint decision. We face the same challenge in relation to the public sector benchmark. Those are the two - the VFM publication and the public sector benchmark publication. We would like to complete the VFM and then make the call. The public sector benchmark decision certainly is commercially sensitive for a number of years, but we are in discussions with the NDFA and the Department about a timescale on-----