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

10:45 am

Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

If an investigation established that there had been inappropriate behaviour of that order, they would go through a disciplinary process. We have taken sanctions to the extent allowed in the disciplinary process, including dismissing people, over the last couple of years.