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:

That works two ways. There is absolutely a control dimension to it, but it is equally about trying to assist people to get back on their feet. It is about trying to assist them with progression plans, places or activation.