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

11:55 am

Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

Once an overpayment is recorded, it becomes a debt. In order to decide on and record an overpayment, there obviously must be an evidence base to show that an overpayment occurred.