Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 23 November 2023
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 45 - Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science
Financial Statements 2022: National Training Fund
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 19: National Training Fund
9:30 am
Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party)
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I want to ask a quick question on the pension outturn. The Estimate provided €197 million and the outturn was €341 million, which is quite a differential. Of all of the costs that an institution might incur, I would have thought that pension costs would be among the most predictable so why is there such a variation?