Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 February 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund

9:00 am

Mr. Kevin McCarthy:

Yes. We are still in set-up mode to some extent as a Department but we are certainly identifying this as a work priority for the first half of the year both to complete the review and to engage with Departments in a process of identifying previous commitments, what is still live and what is not, and potential measures for the 2018 scheme. We have a small number of dedicated staff around this who have a range of other responsibilities, to be fair, but we are certainly prioritising this as a work area, given the scale of what is involved and the importance of the recommendations and the issues that have been identified in the C&AG's report.