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
Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
That payment was deemed to be irregular in nature because it did not have sanction from the Department of Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform. Mr. McKeon's reasoning was that, because of the Covid crisis, the assumption was that it was okay. We have covered that ground.
I move on to the urgent needs payment or the additional needs payment. Could somebody please inform me about this? What is the difference between the additional needs payment and the exceptional needs payment? Briefly, please.
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