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
12:45 pm
Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:
We can certainly supply it. Significant changes have been made to the structure of social welfare payments in recent years. They include significant changes to the means assessments and income criteria. In many cases, this involves standardising, but, obviously, these are decisions that Governments take in moving towards a common platform. Similar changes have been made to the farm assist payment, in respect of which the majority of claimants are men.
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