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
Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
I wanted to put a question to the Department of Public Expenditure, National Delivery Plan Delivery and Reform on ex gratia payments. Mr. McKeon put forward a defence of why those ex gratia payments were made and I think I am happy with the rationale for having made the payments, but an approval should have been sought. I think it is accepted an approval was not sought. Has the Department of public expenditure engaged with the Department of Social Protection to make sure that lapse of communication has been remedied such that there will not be a recurrence?
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