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. John Pender:
Yes, for the following year because we have the budget coming up. With the data available to us, we only have seven months of the current year. For the 2020 estimate, for instance, we would not have the full 2019 data at that point. We would only have the first eight months. We base the estimate on what we have seen in the year to date. The single scheme membership is growing at a very fast rate. In 2013, for example, we had about 13,000 members in the scheme. As at the end of 2021, we have 190,000 in the scheme. All the recruitment for the public service has been channelled into this scheme.