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

Mr. John McKeon:

I do, and we would be happy to do that and we would be happy to talk to any member in private, but I have to make the point that for administrations to work efficiently and effectively and deal with stakeholders, we have to have confidential conversations with them. I have reflected, and perhaps I should not have, something that was said in confidence.