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
12:25 pm
Paschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
We all know - and Deputy O'Donnell mentioned it - that people who receive these payments in many cases do not want to receive them. They would rather be at work and leading a different life. The overwhelming majority are receiving such payments honestly and for good reason.
On page two of her opening statement, Ms O'Donoghue talked about the Pathways to Work scheme. She said that scheme was rolled out to ten offices last year with a target of another 33 this year, and full completion by the end of 2014. Roughly how many people have been affected by the new scheme that we have been discussing here?
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