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:
It could be a non-lucrative contract too. It could look lucrative, but after it has been won and the work has been done on it, it could turn out not to be very lucrative at all. Just because a person wins something and there is juicy cash, he or she still has to do the work, pay the staff and everything else.
What normally would happen is, if there is a non-competitive process, the relevant Department might come to the Vote in our Department and say it is going to do this.