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

1:40 pm

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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I will help Mr. McCarthy, because it is in his own notes on the appropriation accounts. The account the Department gave us for today states that the expenditure on the St. Patrick's, Drumcondra, campus development in 2010 was €5.5 million, in 2011 it was €1.8 million and the legally enforceable commitments to be met in subsequent years, according to the Department's appropriation accounts signed off by the Comptroller and Auditor General last March, was €32.4 million, giving a total cost of expenditure incurred up to the end of 2011 plus legally enforceable commitments of €39.736 million. Is that the cost of the project?