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:
No, it is high. According to the chief appeals officer's report, in 2015 approximately 25,000 appeals were finalised and favourable outcomes were 58% of the overall outcomes. A significant proportion of those would also have been decisions that would have been referred back to a deciding officer, so more information would have been available to allow them.
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