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

12:25 pm

Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

They may not necessarily understand that there is a consequence to non-engagement. Therefore, we revised the kind of communications we have with members of the public so that they are much clearer about what we expect of them and the consequences of non-engagement.