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:
Absolutely. However, one of the points is that we have better IT systems and platforms in place in relation to making our payments. As I stated at the start of the meeting, we are now in the process of developing a new debt management and recovery system. We will have it in place by the end of this year. I think it will allow us to be even more efficient in getting money quicker.