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
12:55 pm
John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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No, that is in the future. I am asking when this concern dawned upon the Secretary General and the Department. That amount has been paid for years. Did nobody suggest that the number using the service be counted to ascertain if we are getting value for money, or are we relying on the discomfort expressed by CIE, or the companies involved, that they are not getting enough to show the Department is getting value for money?