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

12:35 pm

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I think the Department's customers are not being treated equally compared to every other citizen when it comes to getting a receipt for the local property tax.

In respect of the medical assessors, I know that the original forms, be they for illness benefit or disability or carer's payments, were filled out by the GP because we all get them back under FOI or when we look for the forms and see what was on them. Is Ms O'Donoghue able to tell us how many medical assessors the Department has for illness benefit, disability allowance, blind pension, carer's allowance, domiciliary care allowance and the respite care grant? Could she give me a breakdown? It does not have to be off the top of her head. She can send the information on to us.

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