Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 May 2015
Public Accounts Committee
2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Energy and Natural Resources
Chapter 8 - Operation of the Emergency Call Answering Service
10:00 am
Mr. Mark Griffin:
Effectively it is to draw down from the PMG account. It is money forwarded to the Department to deal with commitments that are anticipated. Looking at the large drawdown, in 2012 there was a very substantial drawdown to fund Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland, SEAI, grants which did not materialise in 2012, and that is reflected in the much larger surplus for 2012.