Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 3 April 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Chapter 3 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting
Chapter 5 - Vote Budget Management

12:30 pm

Mr. Robert Watt:

Everywhere has been on a diet and starved of resources, but the Deputy will see that there have been improvements right across the system. It is hard to compare. How does one compare the job we do in our Department with the job done by somebody in the Department of Social Protection or in the Revenue Commissioners? How does one compare what the Civil Service does with what teachers or gardaí do? It is difficult.