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
11:45 am
Robert Dowds (Dublin Mid West, Labour)
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Last year major changes were made to the community employment arrangements, some of which I understand. There was also a great reduction in the amount of money available for what was termed "materials" which in reality was not just stationery and so on. The money was used to pay for fuel, audits and so on. Has the Secretary General a sense of how those changes impacted on the delivery of the CE schemes and put them in a difficult situation?