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:

I can give the Chairman all of those details. The chairperson had been Sylda Langford up to March of this year. Ita Mangan has now been identified as the chairperson designate. In fact, I gather she is due to appear before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Education and Social Protection sometime within the coming week or two in respect of confirmation of that appointment. Other members appointed include the likes of Noeline Blackwell from FLAC. There is a representative from the Department, an assistant secretary.

There is a staff representative. There are others who are there because of their specific background. For example, Eugene McErlean came through a previous PAS process because of his financial nous. He was put on the board. There are a number of different people and, again, I can provide the committee with more detail about them.