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
Marc MacSharry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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-----and that is the €4.2 million it costs for the appeals office and the 13,754 appeals that had to be taken, 57% of which have been taken correctly. We know about all the good work that is going on. We are here to focus on what might be improved or is not going well.