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

Photo of Seán FlemingSeán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

My other question is on mortgage interest supplement. We are due to pass a Finance Bill, although that is not your Department, to give tax breaks to people to buy houses at prices up to €600,000 while at the same time the mortgage interest supplement paid by the Department of Social Protection in 2013 was €21 million and €12 million in 2015. What are this year's and next year's figures?

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