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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It is an accounting error. The Department recorded the payment in a suspense account rather than in the pensions account. It should have gone through the suspense account before the year end and cleared it out and put it into the proper account.