Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 July 2025

Public Accounts Committee

2023 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 11 - Office of the Minister for Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform
Vote 12 - Superannuation and Retired Allowances
Vote 39 - Office of Government Procurement
Vote 43 - Office of the Government Chief Information Officer
Chapter 3 - Vote accounting and budget management

2:00 am

Photo of Cathy BennettCathy Bennett (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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I will move on then. Regarding Vote 12, in recent weeks it has come to light that Ministers and senior civil servants have been overpaid a significant amount. I understand the Department said it did not know but it was reported in the papers that this included two Ministers, 39 former Ministers and 30 senior civil servants. That is a total of 71 individuals. Is there an overlap between the current and former Ministers who have received additional payments who should not have done so?