Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 May 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2020 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
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of Government Chief Information Officer
2020 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 4 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
9:30 am
Mr. David Moloney:
There are two elements. The first is we are happy to disclose the gross salaries of Accounting Officers and Secretaries General. We have done that in the 2021 account by virtue of the salary grade. The committee asked us to actually do the salary and we are looking at that. We do not see a big difficulty in that. The other issue in terms of the comparison between the code of practice and the circular underpinning the appropriation account is the code of practice is comply-or-explain. The risk and the balance of public interest versus any privacy entitlements is a matter for the individual body to consider and-----