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:
What I would say is that at a global level we divide overpayments into the categories of fraud, error or customer error. There is a fourth category, estate-related overpayment, which is something that comes to our attention after someone has died, when we are recovering from the estate of the individual rather than anyone else. The Deputy is quite right. We committed previously to redeveloping our overpayment recovery system, which we did. However, it has only been live since the end of 2014. That will allow us to give a definitive-----