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

1:35 pm

Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

As I mentioned, one of the things is that there will be a lot of movement in this entire space because of the Government's requirement to create a housing assistance payment to move long-term beneficiaries into that. That inevitably means that we will have to look again at how we configure rent supplement-----