Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 October 2016

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015

9:00 am

Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

Yes. I think in terms of people who are in receipt of payments, we have pretty high percentages of cover across most of our schemes. Bear in mind again that what we did was we focused on the scheme where it was easier for people to register. To take our customer base, if one likes, the kind of areas which we are focusing on at the moment would be people who are in receipt of illness or disability payments and they are a little bit more difficult.

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