Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 March 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Business of Committee
9:30 am
Mr. Seamus McCarthy:
I am drawing attention to it because I think it was a significant lapse in controls; these were overpayments that continued for a very long period. Very often you can have payroll breaches because maybe for a period of two weeks the messaging from HR is out of sync with the payroll system and people get paid even though they may have left employment and so on. That is understandable. It is a kind of frictional level issue, but in this case the overpayments went on for a much lengthier period.