Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 October 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 42 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 12 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 13 - Procurement without a Competitive Process

12:00 pm

Mr. Robert Watt:

Over 40 or 50 years. If one looks not only at pension costs but health care costs and the cost of long-term care, which I guess is the big driver, those are significant challenges for how the situation is managed. However, the public sector element is only one part.