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:
We still have to make more than 80 million payments each year. This is the predominant work being done by the Department, although, in fairness, a significant piece of work had to be done to build the infrastructure to facilitate the local property tax. However, the number availing of this option - the figure is 20,000 odd - is very small in the context of the Department's overall customer numbers.