Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 October 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 3 - Vote Accounting and Budget Management
Chapter 4 - Reallocation of Voted Funding
9:30 am
Mr. David Moloney:
We expect it to happen much less this year. The Covid-related restrictions and the unpredictable elements of Covid were much smaller this year than they were in either 2020 or 2021, so we are working to get back to a more normal situation post-Covid. Normally, we do not really support virement in ordinary circumstances because savings are often time-related savings.