Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 December 2017
Public Accounts Committee
Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund
9:00 am
Pat Deering (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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If the process was more streamlined and applicants did not have to, as the witness said, hold back information and the information was requested in a more detailed way at the outset, it would eliminate a huge percentage of potential appeals.