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
Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:
The arrangements for recovery of overpayments are handled by the shared services centre, not at the behest of the Department. We have been working with the shared services centre to ensure that as many issues as possible are dealt with to ensure recovery plans can be put in place as quickly as possible. The figure is 50% of overpayments, not 50% of the staff of the Department.