Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 March 2013
Public Accounts Committee
2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011
10:55 am
Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:
It is primarily elderly, those in receipt of carer's allowance who are resident with the person they are caring for. It is 397,000 recipients. We understand that Eircom has responded to that change and has got agreement from the regulator to introduce a basic-level package targeted specifically at people in vulnerable situations.