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

12:05 pm

Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

We have some 90 staff, out of 600 working on control, working on fraud. That is a core Department of Social Protection activity and, in addition, we have staff within the community welfare service and the employment services contributing to control activity.