Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 February 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Dublin Docklands Development Authority
Annual Report and Financial Statements 2012

12:20 pm

Mr. John Crawley:

Both of these were mistakes by the authority. They are payments that should have been made. As part of the wind up of the authority I specifically examined the human resources issues regarding the various people in the authority. We audited the files of the various people who were still with the authority and identified these two errors. My memory fails me in one case, but in the case of the €88,000 the person had previously requested that those payments be made. That person was on a scale and the authority had not been paying the staff member the increments. The person had formally raised it under a previous regime, maybe a couple of chief executives back, and then the gentleman brought it to my attention in early 2012. We took legal advice on it, reviewed the situation, discussed it with the board-----