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:
That is different because in that instance we are recouping a payment that has already been made. We reserve the right to recoup overpayments before other deductions from source, and this is reflected in the law governing the property tax. Where an overpayment has been made, our first obligation is to recoup the money before we facilitate an additional deduction.