Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 November 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2021
2021 Report on the Accounts of the Public Services of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2021
Chapter 2 - Net Cost of Banking Stabilisation Measures
Chapter 22 - Ireland Apple Escrow Fund
9:30 am
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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The Department sent us a document. Page 15 deals with State agencies and the item relates to dividends paid to the Central Fund. It was €47 million for the ESB in 2020 and, in 2021, it went up to €77 million. With Ervia, it was the reverse as the figure in 2020 was €70 million and, in 2021, it was €38 million. Why is that the case, given the nature of both are pretty much the same in that they are energy-related? Is that known or can the officials come back to me on that?