Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 21 November 2019
Public Accounts Committee
Business of Committee
9:00 am
Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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There is an even bigger issue in respect of broadening out school transport and climate change, and buses not being available. There are big issues here in terms of value for money as a subject in terms of the challenges we face separately. This net issue is about whether the money was a profit or a surplus. Clearly it was not a profit and clearly it was a cost recovery. The only question is the one the Chairman is raising. At what stage should the surplus be repaid or what is the mechanism for it to go back?