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
1:05 pm
Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:
I have explained the work we have done over the six months since the report was published in respect of reissuing guidelines, taking legal powers on recovery and training our staff in recovery of overpayments. While there are extreme difficulties in recouping some of that debt I expect to make significant progress given our new basis for action. We are also hopeful of finding other ways of pursuing debt through attachment orders.
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