Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 November 2017
Public Accounts Committee
2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015
9:00 am
Mr. Seán Ó Foghlú:
Under the code, we set expenditure limits for each ETB and that is with respect to the particular issues affecting those ETBs in terms of demographics and other challenges they have to manage. The ETB sector, as a whole, would have deficits which would have arisen largely because of the budget cuts that had to be made in the sector, in the same way that the budget cuts had to be applied to other sectors. Those deficits, cumulatively, for the 16 ETBs would be of the order of €20 million plus.