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:
Yes. We have been trying to increase the number of medical assessors within the Department but as we have looked to recruit, we have also been losing medical assessors to retirement and indeed to other careers, which is one of the issues that has been raised in terms of our capacity. Our efforts so far to increase our pool have not amounted to much.