Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 March 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 26 - Education and Skills

9:00 am

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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Sorry, we will not go into this. We will come back to it. We will want exact answers. If it is legally due, it should be on the State's balance sheet. If somebody feels that it is legally due but that it is not really going to be paid and decides not to include it, we want to know who arrived at that decision within the Department to exclude a legally payable debt and not to include it on the State's balance sheet. We also need to know why and when the decision was made.