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

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11:55 am

Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

The Deputy made comments about the scale of the case. He will appreciate that when that scale became apparent within the Department, it caused great shock. It is absolutely atypical in the context of the experience of the Department in managing public money.

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