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. John Pender:
In terms of the expenditure side and the amount we are spending on pensions, we do quite an accurate estimate and we are very close. If one takes 2019, there was €600 million for spending and we were within €10 million of our estimate. Even with the difficulty Mr. Watt referred to, we still got it very close.