Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 May 2014

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 16 - Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 17 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 18 - Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 19 - Domiciliary Care Allowance
Chapter 20 - Invalidity Pension
Social Insurance Fund Annual Accounts 2012

12:05 pm

Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

There are extremely simple ways of doing this. It can be done through our website and anonymous reports can be made either through the website or through a dedicated telephone line. Some information will be sought to establish whether there may be something that must be investigated or otherwise. The Deputy will appreciate that occasionally someone might make a report to the Department where they see someone claiming a social welfare payment who potentially is in some sort of employment, but in fact that might be allowed under the terms of the scheme.

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