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:

Ultimately, it will be of great assistance to us. However, I would not underestimate the effort that will be required on the part of the Department in terms of the adjustments made to payment systems and our communication with all our customers. We will now have to allow for postcodes that previously did not exist. Therefore, there will be quite a job of work for us to put that in place. It is a development that we welcome and one we are co-operating on and will be involved in.