Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 April 2018

Public Accounts Committee

Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

9:00 am

Photo of Marc MacSharryMarc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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I genuinely mean it. I know it is highly unusual but it is not somebody looking for money or compensation. They are possibly coming from a good place in terms of public advocacy. The committee has said it would like to discuss it in private. Legal representatives talk through the back channels regularly. Maybe it is something that could be looked at. If it saves people money and leads to a greater public oversight of this, it is something to be welcomed. As of the end of 2016, it was €222 million. Have we an indication of where it is at now?