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
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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Mr. Watt mentioned officials in his Department shadowing officials in other Departments. Obviously, that is the methodology. The issue of the national broadband plan was raised on one of the previous occasions Mr. Watt was in front of the committee. He committed his views from a value for money perspective to paper. The contract has been signed. I presume his views have not changed. What system is in place for tracking some of the risks identified by him in the letter to Mark Griffin in April 2019?