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

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12:25 pm

Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

There are valid reasons people do not attend when they are asked to do so. Since the introduction of operational instructions in this regard, in the middle of 2012, 15,807 customers were referred to activation and 5,338 initially failed to attend.

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