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
12:15 pm
Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:
The 48% moves to 60% following the whole process. Not everybody, who is refused, appeals, if I can put it like that.
In terms of times for appeal, in 2012, for summary decisions, the time was 32.5 weeks. That reduced to 27.6 weeks in 2013. For oral hearings, it started, in 2012, at 41.4 weeks and that reduced to 34.4 weeks in 2013. It is a significant amount of time but the Deputy will appreciate that in many instances, when there is either a request for a review or a request for appeal, there is very considerable additional evidence adduced. That then has to be considered again and it takes some time.
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