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:

From a control perspective, as Accounting Officer, I am trying to reduce unnecessary spend. The sources of unnecessary spend are departmental error, namely, my staff making mistakes, customer error, namely, the customer mistakenly giving us the wrong information, and fraud. There are three components of the one matter. The Comptroller and Auditor General reports on them as fraud and error, meaning I have to account for them as fraud and error.

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