Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 December 2018
Public Accounts Committee
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report 98: Provision of School Transport
9:00 am
Mr. Seamus McCarthy:
What drew our attention to the figure was it was a round figure. It is a notional figure. It has some bearing in reality. Buses have to be parked somewhere. There has to be security and so on. When we asked for an explanation about why it was precisely €2.5 million, we did not get a detailed explanation for it. It goes back to the work that has been done over the years looking at how we arrive at these figures and how we know we are recovering the costs incurred. There is an element of guesstimation or apportionment going on there. All of that has to be-----