Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 6 July 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2015
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 18 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council
Finance Accounts 2015

9:00 am

Ms Ann Nolan:

For example, at the beginning of this year, we did not know whether we would be doing the initial public offering, IPO. There were three windows, as the Deputy will remember the Minister saying. It could have been in June this year, it could have been in the autumn and it could have been in the following June. At the beginning of a year, we do not really know what expenses we will incur, so therefore we do not know which ones we will recoup.