Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 June 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children and Youth Affairs
9:00 am
Dr. Fergal Lynch:
We did not really have that flexibility for two reasons. Each year, the most important month for knowing how much money is to be spent is September; it is a September start date for most people. We did not have time to reallocate it as a result. We cannot simply vire or move money from one area to another without permission. It would have been a temporary understanding rather than being permanent.