Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 1 December 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection - Social Insurance Fund 2021
Chapter 10: Regularity of social welfare payments
Chapter 11: The recovery of benefit and assistance payments following compensation awards
Chapter 14: Classification of workers for PRSI purposes
9:30 am
Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source
If we go to the report for the period between 2014 and 2021, €532 million is outstanding as potentially recoverable. Some €160 million has been received, which is less than a third. The Department is at approximately €300 million, which is a vast amount of money, particularly in view of the Department we are dealing with. I know it has huge budgets but that is a lot of money. Is there any circumstance whereby the compensator may actually be taking the money from the claimant and not passing it back to the Department?
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