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

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12:15 pm

Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

If the Deputy bears with me one moment, I can give her chapter and verse on this. In terms of success, it is a 48% success rate at initial claim and, if you like, a 52% refusal rate. That then rises following the appeals process to an overall 60% success rate.

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