Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 July 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter - 24 Supplementary Welfare Allowance

1:15 pm

Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

Obviously, I cannot answer for what councils do, but, to the best of my knowledge, they have a programme of inspections. We will reflect the concerns raised by Deputies Dowds and McDonald back to our colleagues in the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government and see what we can do to work more closely.