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:

They transferred on secondment from 1 January 2011 and substantively from 1 October that year. There are approximately 1,000 staff, of whom approximately 700 are CWOs.