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 am trying to answer. I am trying to tell the Deputy that the reason we are doing it is that we were assigned responsibility for this. It was a new responsibility for the Department and we have to develop the infrastructure to do it. We are in the process of doing so and we cannot draw down the funding until we have the systems developed. We are working with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform in this regard. My understanding is that there will be no loss to the State. The money will be there and we will be able to draw it down and use it.