Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 May 2015

Public Accounts Committee

2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 10 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 11 - Control of Supplementary Welfare Allowances
Chapter 12 - Farm Assist
Social Insurance Fund 2013

10:00 am

Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

There is work going on at the moment. It is called the Pathfinder project where an external stakeholder was brought in to work with a group, including representatives from the local groups and the CIB, to come up with a different model. They have identified a couple of different options. They gave a progress report to the CIB at the end of March and there were some queries as a result of it. Within the past week or two the membership of the board has been reconfirmed, so the board can be reconvened. I imagine that very soon over the next number of months a report from the Pathfinder group will be made to the board. When the board reaches a decision it will come to the Department for confirmation, but the decision, effectively, is the board's to make.

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