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
11:00 am
Mr. Robert Watt:
There is not much else. Pay accounts for €15 billion and pensions account for another €3 billion. We have spoken about the number relating to procurement. Social protection is €20 billion and there are various smaller items. That is it. If one thinks about what we do, we buy goods and services, recruit people, provide social transfers and bill things. That is what the Government does. When one goes down through it, as the Deputy knows from the discussions on Estimates, there is not much else. There are no easy options.