Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 April 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 5 - Fiscal Transparency

9:00 am

Mr. Seamus McCarthy:

We do not have a fully consolidated account, rather than a fully consolidated balance sheet. We do not have the balance sheet, either. It is a point I will be making later when we come to talk about the Finance accounts, the account of the Central Fund of the Exchequer. There is no balance sheet or statement of assets and liabilities associated with it. That to me leaves a gap in knowledge about our position.