Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 27 November 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 39 - Health Service Executive
6:05 pm
Dr. Geraldine Smith:
No. These allowances could have been paid over various years. Given that we are talking about a lot of individuals in a lot of different agencies, we cannot say all of the allowances started on a particular day. They were put in place at different times but we do not have the information on that. We cannot give the committee an exact figure in terms of the amount of allowances in play.