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

1:05 pm

Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

I am not sure that we prescribed the control mechanism or supports the HSE had in place but certainly we required the HSE to account for all the activity but, obviously, in this situation, this arose and was not picked by whatever mechanisms were in place.