Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 22 October 2020
Public Accounts Committee
2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform
Vote 12 – Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Accounting for Capital Assets
Chapter 5 - Accounting for Allied Services
11:30 am
Mr. Robert Watt:
We do not have a culture of accepting underperformance. We have the opposite, where we encourage best performance and we encourage people to learn from it. If people make a significant mistake, it might be that sanction is appropriate, whatever that sanction might be, or it might be that we conclude that we need to learn from what happened. I am not getting into the details of that particular case because I do not know enough about it.