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:

To be clear, the Ombudsman cannot change a decision. He can recommend to the Department that it reconsider a decision and we do. I met the Ombudsman recently and just at a general level, he said that the number of cases he has to deal with from the Department has fallen dramatically and as Ms Stack said, they tend to be predominantly where we are trying to recover debt and somebody complains that we are recovering 15% and asks whether we could be kinder and recover 2%. It involves those kind of cases.

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