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
Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:
Because the fraud and error survey is a snapshot of a moment in time. We take action immediately after the results of the survey, and controls and everything change. The Department has never accepted that it is an absolute indicator. It is a snapshot. It is one of the tools available to us.