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
Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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Good. My final question relates back to this lovely document, which is very helpful in the context of the information it provides regarding value for money and renting buildings as opposed to purchasing or constructing them. The document in question is one of the Department's 200 papers. It states that there are a number of areas worthy of further research and refers to "an assessment of the balance between capital and current expenditure (long term value for money of construction/acquisition ... versus leased options)". This is crucial in the context of the astronomical rents people are paying and the fact that the Government is i lár an aonaigh. It is in the middle of the fair, actively increasing the prices in conjunction with the policy. I do not expect Mr. Watt to comment on policy - that is my comment on it. Is there not an urgency to look at getting value for money in terms of leasing, purchasing or building?