Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 November 2020

Public Accounts Committee

2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2019
Chapter 17 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund

11:30 am

Mr. Gary Tobin:

Deputy Colm Burke is correct. This came up last year and possibly the year before. My team has done an great deal of work on this public sector balance sheet. It is a crucial area and it is something we gave much priority to. We are nearly there. The whole Covid-19 issue has put us off-track slightly but by the end of this month we will publish data between 2000 and 2019 as well as a paper explaining why these issues are so important. My team has done the data right up to 2018. They are finalising 2019 and we will publish in the next couple of weeks.