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
Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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Surely it is possible to estimate the required provision for Army pensions but it has been miscalculated for six years in a row. Whoever is responsible should be better at counting. It is a fairly straightforward issue which does not involve tens of thousands of people.
On the Garda Síochána, Mr. Watt will tell me that the Supplementary Estimate is to provide for Garda overtime. However, there will be overtime next year and that should be budgeted for in the Estimates rather than there being a shock announcement by the Commissioner stating that there will be no Garda overtime for three months. There does not seem to be an effort to get the Estimates right at step one. Mr. Watt knows them inside out and is probably sick of looking at them. Neither he nor the Minister should be seeking Supplementary Estimates year in, year out. It is systemic. The only answer is to try to do it right in the future.