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
Noel Rock (Dublin North West, Fine Gael)
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I thank Mr Ó Foghlú for his presentation. I will start with pay, given it is such a large percentage of the Department's voted expenditure. The Comptroller and Auditor General's report highlighted how administrative staff salary overpayments at the year-end were €394,000 in 262 cases. This is almost treble what it was in 2014 when there were overpayments of €113,000 across 84 cases. Are there particular circumstances which give rise to this level of overpayment?