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

Photo of Paul McAuliffePaul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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It was a very considerable calculation by the Department. That €29 million is a huge amount of money. We have established that it is very difficult to interrogate the Governor regarding the decision of the President of the High Court, but the Department was clearly involved in making that calculation when it talked about issuing a letter of comfort.