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:
Yes, and I will consider the Deputy's point, but I wish to make two of my own. I do not know whether I am responding to his question on the pricing structure or Deputy Murphy's, but different prices are paid depending on whether the client is long-term unemployed by one year, two years, three years, etc. Different prices are paid in terms of discounts that will be applied for non-performance, penalties that the Department will levy and so on. Although the total is known, I would find it challenging, even though I know the figures, to reverse engineer from the public data back to the price.
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