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
12:25 pm
Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:
The Deputy will appreciate my position. I do not have a figure to hand but the Deputy will appreciate that the vast bulk of overpayments are very small. Given the powers we now have and the level of overpayments we can recoup, a very considerable number of debts can now be satisfied within the course of a 12-month period.