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

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9:00 am

Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

It is not that the money has not been gone after, it is our ability to get at the money of an insolvent company. In the context where somebody is a claimant and has been overpaid, regardless of whether it is fraud or error, we will seek to recover the overpayment.

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