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
Gabrielle McFadden (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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Everybody risks homelessness. If a person goes to a community welfare officer, they are absolutely desperate. They are not going in there for the good of their health. I acknowledge that the community welfare officers and the staff I deal with on a daily basis are doing their level best for people, but is the message not coming down from the top that this flexibility is available to them?