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:
As one will appreciate, in framing any budget, the Minister of the day will have a range of different ideas as to how he or she might spend money if it were available. What the Department does in terms of providing advice is carry out a social impact assessment of different options and make that available, but it all feeds into an overall approach.