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:
For comparison purposes, in 2014 - obviously, these figures have to be audited - recorded overpayments amounted to €124.4 million and the recovery was €83 million. We see again an incremental jump of €13 million in recovery. Our expectation in 2015 is that we will be recovering in and around €90 million.