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
Paul McAuliffe (Dublin North West, Fianna Fail)
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I accept all that. My question, though, was that prior to the 2018 amendments, the Department would not have been in that bind. Would it be fair to say that prior to 2018, when the amendment was introduced by the Department, it would not have had that Hobson's choice or Solomon's choice of knowing that the State was already on the hook?