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:
There would be community employment officers or community welfare officers. They would have a number of satellite clinics in the area. We have reduced the number around the country generally. I know it will sound contradictory but we actually did that in order to improve service. We had 900 satellite offices which cost quite a lot of money. We have now reduced that number to approximately 200.
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