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

12:35 pm

Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

We have a record in terms of the overall amount that we pay to Revenue but the system was designed to simply act on instruction from Revenue. I will certainly look into it but I am not aware of any issue arising in respect of this at the time of the discussions.