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:
It is an illness-related scheme. The scheme is about providing assistance to somebody in regard to the additional care and attention that is required but there is a fundamental requirement that has to be identified. It is not because a child has X condition or Y condition. It is because of the nature of the additional care and attention that the child requires.
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