Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 March 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011
11:55 am
Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:
When we recover money, it is recorded in our overpayments system. As the Comptroller and Auditor General has previously said, one of the problems we have with the current system is that it does not differentiate between recoveries in terms of error and fraudulent payments. It is a recovery against a debt that is included in our system; therefore, I cannot give the Deputy that breakdown.