Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 15 May 2025
Public Accounts Committee
Business of Committee
2:00 am
Mr. Seamus McCarthy:
Yes. Obviously, there are very many. Members can certainly ask the Department. If they look at the appropriation account of the Department, they should get a good indication. For example, regarding the medical research body, there should be an indication in the Vote of how much money the Department is sending to health research. Then you would expect to see it matched on the other side. There is a difficulty in that the Department operates on a cash-accounting basis while the bodies operate on a accrual-accounting basis. That can give rise to some discrepancies but they are reconcilable.