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
Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Ms O'Donoghue referred to the big issue of recouping overpayments. Up to 15% can be deducted, which equates to €28 per week in the case of a single person on full jobseeker's allowances. What arrangements are in place to deduct the local property tax from social welfare payments and will that be deducted in addition to the 15%? Has an application form been prepared for clients? I have not seen copies of such forms yet but I am sure they will land in my constituency clinic one of these days. I ask her to outline the arrangements between her Department and Revenue for collecting the local property tax.