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

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

There is a figure of €71.2 million over two years. The service delivery is outsourced to two companies. The very first question, a simple one, was on the value of the initial registration fee paid. We cannot even get that initial registration fee because of commercial sensitivity, I would imagine. That is the problem with this outsourcing. How are we meant to understand how this money is spent or whether the initial registration fee is appropriate? How are we to understand anything in regard to it if we cannot get those figures?

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