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

11:25 am

Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

The onus would be on them to tell us that their means or circumstances had changed. Otherwise, if we were to subsequently establish that their means had changed, it would be a case of overpayment recovery.