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

Photo of Joe CostelloJoe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

The funding did not exist before last year. Every country received the funding for the first time. It is a new programme, so it is no good saying it was only made available to the Department last year. It was only made available to all 28 countries in the EU last year. How were they able to put the mechanisms in place and why can we not have this expedited?

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