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

12:50 pm

Mr. Robert Watt:

We will go through it. There were similar cases recently in which we wrote to the body to say pay needs to be reduced to reflect the actual sanctioned salary. The direct impact of that was that pay would be reduced. In some cases, however, people can legitimately claim they have a legal entitlement because it was not their fault but the fault of the human resources unit they were paid something which was not due. It depends on the individual circumstances. We are going to respond to this report.