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
Joe Costello (Dublin Central, Labour)
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What could have been drawn down in 2014 has not been drawn down, and we do not know what will happen in 2015 and 2016. The information I have has come from Crosscare in particular, which has outlined that it has made plans for distribution on the basis that this money was available and, therefore, put its mechanisms in place to distribute the funds which would provide food to the needy in the country. I certainly know that Brother Kevin Crowley was waiting for this fund. He is the Capuchin brother who is providing such an incredible service to the poor and deprived in the city of Dublin.