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:
We have gone through a process of trying to come to an agreement with an individual on a recovery plan.
Where we are aware that he or she has assets, we will attach, but it is on the basis of the very end of a long process of engagement. We are dealing with a very different entity and a very different issue there, where we have overpaid somebody, to a legal entitlement under the redundancy and insolvency scheme and us having to operate the process that applies there.