Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 October 2016

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015

9:00 am

Photo of Peter BurkePeter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)
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We have paid €2.6 million to Accenture and Ms O'Donoghue said the Department was working internally to ensure that a new system went live and that all clients of the Department complied with policy and got their correct payments. Does it concern Ms O'Donoghue that over 53% of her staff have no recovery plans for overpayments from the Department? Is she concerned about how that might look to the public?