Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 July 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter - 24 Supplementary Welfare Allowance
1:45 pm
Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:
We are certainly called to account in terms of what we have committed to deliver. At the end of each visit, we tend to be given even more detailed targets relating to what the troika expects and the kind of progress it would like us to achieve over the period before the next visit. In general, it is fair to say that we have been able to acquit ourselves well in terms of arguing about what is being done and how it is being done. I refer to the changes that are being made. We have been able to demonstrate that a great deal of work is being done and attention is being paid in order to meet the agendas that have been set out. As I said, these are agendas that the Department and the Government would have been pursuing anyway because they make sense in an international context.
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