Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 November 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 22 - Eligibility for Medical Cards

1:30 pm

Mr. Patrick Burke:

There are no overpayments and there are no moneys outstanding because in the older system and with the Comptroller and Auditor General - I am unsure where one should leave the credit in this circumstance - we identified a number of overpayments going back over a number of years, in which individuals had passed away and their eligibility ceased long after the event and it was not recouped. We conducted a forensic examination of that, which came to a different sum than that mentioned and we recouped every cent. Consequently, there are no legacy overpayments.