Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 October 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Vote 11 - Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 2 - Collection of Pension Contributions due to the Exchequer
Chapter 3 - Control of Funding for Voted Public Services
Chapter 5 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Vote 11 - Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 95: Financial Reporting in the Public Sector
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 99: Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 100: Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2016
9:00 am
Mr. Robert Watt:
Yes. It happened in 2010. Committee members may recall that period when an election was pending. The budget was introduced by the then Minister, Mr. Brian Lenihan. A majority in the Dáil decided to support the enactment of the Finance Bill and the Social Welfare Bill quickly to clear the decks so that the budget could be implemented in advance of the election. During that time the Appropriation Bill was taken quickly in the Houses and enacted. Supplementary Estimates were taken and the Bill was voted upon and enacted quickly. Again, there was a situation whereby if the Dáil had been dissolved before the Bill was enacted, we would not have been in a position to invoke the 80% rule for 2011.