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
1:55 pm
Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:
There is a balance to be struck in regard to this and we must be careful about that. The entire purpose of a scheme like this is to allow an officer exercise discretion. However, within that, we must ensure that we continue to review and assess what is happening on the ground and whether there is consistency in the way in which that discretion is being applied. That should not be contradictory.
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