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Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts and Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 6 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Financial Outturn for 2011
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Banking and Insurance Measures
Chapter 5 - EU Financial Transactions (7 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: I ask Mr. Moran to give a direct answer to that question and then we will move to Deputy Ross.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts and Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 6 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Financial Outturn for 2011
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Banking and Insurance Measures
Chapter 5 - EU Financial Transactions (7 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: May we publish Mr. Moran's statement?

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts and Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 6 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Financial Outturn for 2011
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Banking and Insurance Measures
Chapter 5 - EU Financial Transactions (7 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: I thank Mr. McCarthy. I now invite Mr. Moran to make his opening statement.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts and Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 6 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Financial Outturn for 2011
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Banking and Insurance Measures
Chapter 5 - EU Financial Transactions (7 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: Before we commence I remind members, witnesses and those in the Public Gallery to turn off their mobile phones because the interference from them affects the sound quality and transmission of the meeting. I advise witnesses that they are protected by absolute privilege in respect of the evidence they give to the committee. However, if they are directed by the committee to cease giving...

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts and Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 6 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Financial Outturn for 2011
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Banking and Insurance Measures
Chapter 5 - EU Financial Transactions (7 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: I welcome the witness from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and ask him to introduce himself.

Public Accounts Committee: 2011 Appropriation Accounts and Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 6 - Office of the Minister for Finance
Chapter 1 - Financial Outturn for 2011
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 3 - Banking and Insurance Measures
Chapter 5 - EU Financial Transactions (7 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: I ask the Comptroller and Auditor General to introduce the accounts.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: Are the minutes of the meeting of 28 February agreed to? Agreed. The only matter arising relates to the need to engage a rapporteur to assist the committee in drafting the report it discussed at its previous public meeting and in private session. The clerk has done some work on the issue.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: Not yet.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: We agreed in private session and at our previous meeting to do this work which, essentially, follows on from the work done by the previous incarnation of the committee.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: No, it was not. We will be taking all of the work carried out by the previous committee and all the documentation it received from the Department of Finance and linking them with a current report from the Comptroller and Auditor General. In other words, we will take all of the relevant information, etc., from the previous committee and put the accompanying documents with it. The rapporteur...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: Yes. We are bringing the matter of bank stabilisation full circle. The evidence given at this hearing will be factored in. When the report has been drafted, we can then decide if additional work is required or if further witnesses should be called. We can do this as matters unfold.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: The rapporteur will be appointed in the coming weeks. It is difficult to say how long it will take, but I imagine it will only be a matter of weeks. The work has already been done and the documentation is available.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: We do not want to hold ourselves to that because there is a fair amount of work involved.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: Yes. We can then decide whether further witnesses need to be called. The next item is correspondence received since our meeting on Thursday, 28 February. No. 3A is correspondence from Accounting Officers and-or Ministers. No. 3A.1 is correspondence received on 1 March from Mr. Fred Barry, chief executive of the National Roads Authority, in which is provided information requested at our...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: I wonder whether the information from the NRA that was outstanding is contained in the letter.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: No. 3B is correspondence dated 4 March 2013 from Mr. Cathal Guiomard, Commissioner for Aviation Regulation, forwarding correspondence with the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport on the Commission for Aviation Regulation pension scheme. This correspondence is to be noted. No. 3C is documents relating to the committee's meeting on 7 March. No. 3C.1 is correspondence dated 4 March...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: We have received correspondence in the past on certain issues. We may put all of the various documentation together and seek a response to it from Bord na gCon.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (7 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: Okay, we will do that. The next item is the agenda for our meeting at 10 a.m. on Thursday, 14 March. The agenda for the meeting will be the 2011 Appropriation Accounts and annual report of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Vote 38 - social protection; chapter 21 - expenditure on welfare and employment schemes; chapter 22 - welfare overpayment debts; and chapter 23 - regularity of social...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Croke Park Agreement Issues (7 Mar 2013)

John McGuinness: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will outine details of the reduction in annual substitution hours his Department expects to pay for if the proposals under new public service pay agreement are implemented; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11987/13]