Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 21 November 2019

Public Accounts Committee

Business of Committee

9:00 am

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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I have no particular issue, I just do not follow the letter. Over what period was this surplus, as we will call it, and that ultimately was repaid to the Department built up? What about the company deciding to return it to the Department? Was that the work of the Comptroller and Auditor General? Had his office not done it, was it going to keep this money in its own bank account year on year? What brought it about that this extra money that was over and above the cost recovery basis that it had been paid, what brought about that being returned to the Department? That is all I am asking.