Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 April 2023

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Chapter 14 - Assessment and Collection of Insurance Compensation Fund Levies (Resumed)
Report on Administration and Movement of the Insurance Compensation Fund for the year ended 31 December 2021 (Resumed)
Comptroller and Auditor General Section 2 Report on Unauthorised release of funds from the Central Fund of the Exchequer (Resumed)

9:30 am

Mr. Gabriel Makhlouf:

It has been in place for a few years. Essentially, there are areas throughout the banking world that are very specialist in nature. This applies to insurance as well. We do not necessarily at all times have all the skills that we need to do particular tasks. We were prevented previously from being able to do what we now can do. Certainly, one of the things we pride ourselves on is employing very capable and skilful people, developing them and giving them the tools to do the job. At the end of the day, we need to do the best job that we can do. If this means that we need to bring extra skills in, at least we can do so.