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
John Deasy (Waterford, Fine Gael)
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I think it is very significant for the public, when it comes to overpayments generally - whatever the category they are initiated within - that there are improvements when it comes to the recovery of the moneys. That is an important story for the Department to tell. I think those figures are very significant.
Very quickly, when the unemployment rate decreases - if it goes from, say, 11% to 10%, as it has recently - how much does that mean? What is the net saving, roughly, per percentage?