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
12:30 pm
Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:
We will certainly look at the case the Deputy has outlined. It is difficult to give a commitment to cease payments while we are looking at a case given that the payments are €20 every two weeks. I cannot give an outright assurance, but as soon as we find out that we have made a mistake or error in any of these cases - we do make errors in cases such as this - we would stop the deduction and seek to pay any money back. We are genuinely not aware of the group of teachers the Deputy is talking about but we will immediately look at it.