Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 30 November 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 7 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Finance Accounts 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 1 – Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2022
Chapter 2 – Reporting Ireland’s EU Transactions
Chapter 24 – Performance of the Ireland Apple Escrow Fund
Chapter 25 – Irish Fiscal Advisory Council

9:30 am

Mr. Des Carville:

It varies. This is very important because to keep everybody honest, hungry and keen, we move the advisory mandates around quite a bit at various points in time depending on league tables and how various firms are performing. We also have an independent adviser on top of the selling banks. At the moment we are using Rothschild out of London. It gave us advice. As the Secretary General said, within the Department we have people employed like me and my team who have spent many years in these areas. If somebody is trying to give us advice that is questionable or skewed, I would really like to think that my team and I can see that a mile away.