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

Photo of Peter BurkePeter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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Is the Department working on how we can simplify this process? The figures Mr. McCarthy gives make it look even worse, because societal demands were increasing in the period to which he referred, that is, from 2011 onwards. There are three people in the Department working on it but can Mr. McCarthy give me any confidence that the money will be allocated better and that the red tape around it will be reduced?