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:
Absolutely. We can certainly have a conversation with our colleagues in the Department for Work and Pensions to establish what are the implications. In some cases, their customers are also our customers. We obtain some information from the Department for Work and Pensions on pensions payable, but there are strict confidentiality rules in using this data. We must be very careful to preserve this agreement.