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

What do you think the figure is for this year? One of the officials can find it while we are discussing this. We are going in different directions whereby under the Finance Bill, if one is on a high income one will get a tax relief to buy a house, while somebody struggling to pay a mortgage is on the scheme under the Department. It is a policy issue, so you cannot talk about that. The Department has abolished that scheme.

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