Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 1 May 2014
Public Accounts Committee
2012 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 16 - Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 17 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 18 - Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 19 - Domiciliary Care Allowance
Chapter 20 - Invalidity Pension
Social Insurance Fund Annual Accounts 2012
11:25 am
Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:
In total, they are more or less on profile. They are marginally behind profile but the budget for 2014 took that into account. The provisions were made on the basis of an assumption that there would be a reduction in expenditure on live register and jobseeker payments - both JA and JB.