Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 November 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Staff Appointments in the National Gallery of Ireland
Vote 34 - National Gallery of Ireland

12:15 pm

Mr. Dermot Quigley:

For starters, I should make clear it is beyond the sanction that was given. In that sense, the payment of anything over the limits that are in a section is incorrect in our view. Removal expenses normally are paid after the event. The circumstances for which they are paid are laid out quite clearly in Circular 6/1989. The grounds on which the €40,000 are being paid certainly are outside the normal scope of removal expenses.