Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 28 May 2015
Public Accounts Committee
2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 10 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 11 - Control of Supplementary Welfare Allowances
Chapter 12 - Farm Assist
Social Insurance Fund 2013
10:00 am
John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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Ms O'Donoghue is pointing, which I would expect her to do, to the success of the 2,000. I have to point her to the fact that there are others in hotel accommodation who have not been successful and that the flexibility simply is not there. I am asking that some connection be made between her Department, whoever deals with it, and the local authority to insist that the flexibility be put in place. It is costing the taxpayer more money for that accommodation than it would if an effort had been made to keep them in the accommodation they were in.