Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 January 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund
9:30 am
Mr. John McKeon:
The Deputy is singing our tune, and I do not say that in a facetious way. The Comptroller and Auditor General referred in his report on public services to the need to communicate with people, to let them know their status in terms of debts and so on. That is something we are continually looking at, and we are going to try to automate that process to remind people once a year, "You currently have a debt of X with the Department of Social Protection. We might not be chasing you for it now, but the next time you come in we might-----
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