Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 February 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 6 - Financial Commitments under Public Private Partnerships
Chapter 18 - Salary Overpayments to Teachers
Vote 26 - Department of Education and Skills

10:40 am

Photo of Gerald NashGerald Nash (Louth, Labour)
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There is a high rate of success for appeals. If there was that rate of success in social welfare appeals - that had been the case with some disability payments - a flag would go up and the Department would make some intervention to improve the system. What has the Department learned from the high rate of appeals?