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:
We will raise the issue with the Department of Education and Skills. Our means test is set down in law. We have no plans to change it. I cannot say what the views of the Department of Education and Skills are. Perhaps that is something the committee would need to take up with the Department of Education and Skills. We will raise it with that Department but it is its rule and not ours.