Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 February 2017

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 21 – Prisons
Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts Special Report No. 93: Annualised Hours of the Prison Service

9:00 am

Mr. Michael Donnellan:

Yes. Also, detection of our overpayments has increased because we are more efficient now. We are picking up more and more overpayments. Previously, overpayment rates were not as high. Our view is that we were not picking up the faults. We have a robust system now. We have dedicated staff watching overpayment. Reconciliation takes place twice per year. We get back 98% of overpayments. Short of someone leaving the country or not being on a pension, we take it back.

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