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:
As I said, those cases are still under investigation. The outcome very much depends on to whom the payments involved were made. In addition, the Deputy referred to collusion and we must establish whether claims were made inappropriately and whether there are moneys which we must recoup.