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
11:50 am
Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:
I do not think the issue was about the identification of the need versus the person being employed. There will always be some short-term time lag. The issue was more that we needed to maintain - "surplus" is the wrong word - numbers available to us so that we did not go over the cap which the Government had decided as the maximum numbers of SNAs to be employed.