Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 October 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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In other words, when we had an appropriation vote before Christmas, the matter was not captured at that stage. It came to light during the Comptroller and Auditor General's audit after the year end. A payment of €23,299 was recorded in a suspense account. It should have cleared out of the suspense account before the year end. It cannot go into 2017 because it relates to 2016 and we have to correct it retrospectively.