Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 8 February 2018
Public Accounts Committee
Business of Committee
9:00 am
Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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We will write to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in the meantime. We are writing to the HSE because of the scale just to get its numbers. It is something the Comptroller and Auditor General covers in his annual audit. Having looked through the 40 Votes the Comptroller and Auditor General highlighted in the schedule, I found it troubling that there were 1,068 Revenue cases but that repayment plans are only in place for 391 of these. For the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, there are 1,511 cases but only 385 repayment plans in place. For the Garda Síochána, there are 195 individual cases but only 27 repayment plans. My real concern is that they were sitting there with no plans in place to tidy the matter up.