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
11:15 am
Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:
My point is that there are a number of different elements. I have detailed them in the update. They include the train that is going on for recovery items, revised guidelines on write-off and revised guidelines on recovery. All of those things have been progressed since the audit was carried out last year. There are two other elements I can draw to the committee's attention. We have also been investigating the possibility of using attachment orders.