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
2:15 pm
Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:
Yes, they tend to arise where there is a particular disaster, for want of a better word, where somebody is not receiving a social welfare payment but is suddenly faced with a cost that he or she must cover immediately and perhaps does not have the means. In many instances those urgent needs payments would be recouped when somebody goes back to work or gets their insurance claim, or whatever the case may be.
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