Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 7 December 2017

Public Accounts Committee

Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund

9:00 am

Mr. John McKeon:

Let me deal with it. We deal with a variety of stakeholder groups, which would include representative bodies and advocacy groups. In those dealings we have formal and informal contacts. In informal contacts we have raised the issue of why we are seeing an increasing number of cases where additional medical information is being provided. It has been said informally to us, "We know that clients are holding back the information and, to be honest, we told them that is not a bad thing to do". They are informal contacts. I do not want to breach that informal confidentiality.

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