Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 November 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

Essentially, the body is accounting for the liabilities of the pension schemes but, unlike almost all other non-commercial state bodies, it is not recognising a matching pension funding asset. It is not accounting for it on the basis that it will receive funding in the future to match the liabilities-----