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
11:55 am
Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:
It is in respect of payments to others that the question of collusion arises. In other words, inappropriate claims were made and facilitated. That is my understanding. The Deputy will appreciate that they are very complicated claims and that there is a very complicated investigation taking place.