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
11:35 am
Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:
We have a central control unit based in Carrick-on-Shannon, with approximately 50 staff exclusively studying control measures. It focuses on fraud, but it also tries to eliminate customer and departmental error. There is an inspectorate which, at its hard level, is the special investigation unit, with 91 officers who are based throughout the country but report to a principal officer nationally.