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
11:35 am
Robert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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Considering my case load as a public representative, I almost never get representations on child benefit, for example, and I presume that is because the system works very effectively and efficiently. I can see it is a simpler case than jobseeker's allowance, etc., because there is so much change in the area. Does Ms O'Donoghue envisage getting to a stage where the likes of me as a public representative will not be pursued so much on issues like jobseeker's or disability allowance because the system works so effectively and will deal with people more quickly? It effectively deals with child benefit.