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:
My understanding is that late last year, it was all agreed in terms of the operating protocol. This is a new activity for the Department so there is a change in the infrastructural arrangements. We are putting the mechanisms in place and will be drawing it down and working with the NGOs. Ireland Inc. will not lose money because of this delay. We will still get the money and be able to use it.