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
11:15 am
Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:
Indeed. Finally, in a much more macro way, one of the areas that is being examined by the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in the context of public service reform is out-sourcing debt collection across various different agencies of the State. There is an exercise going on currently to examine the feasibility and potential of that. Debt in the social welfare Vote will potentially be part of that. We will wait and be informed by whatever comes out of that particular process.
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