Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 11 April 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 4 - Central Statistics Office
9:00 am
Ms Jennifer Banim:
We questioned that and we put tolerances around it. If one is constructing a business case that one is going to be building out and if it is going to be very close to the margins, if I can call it, around the rules around these decisions, the likelihood is that a prudent decision would mean that the classification would be on balance sheet. It is very difficult in these, what are called, ex anteclassifications.