Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform: Select Sub-Committee on Finance
Estimates for Public Services 2013
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance (Revised)
Vote 8 - Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General (Revised)
Vote 9 - Office of the Revenue Commissioners (Revised)
Vote 10 - Office of the Appeal Commissioners (Revised)
5:20 pm
Michael Noonan (Limerick City, Fine Gael)
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Some of it is Presidency related but the monitoring of the banking sector and the various things we had to do in banking is costly as well and there are some expected consultancy costs. The gains for the promissory note are huge. One is dealing with sums of €40 billion and obviously one needs the best possible expertise, both legal and financial. One does not have it in-house all the time. We cannot gear-up inhouse for every eventuality.