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

Ms GrĂ¡inne McGuckin:

I know the point the Deputy is making. It clearly has cross-cutting implications and it would involve a certain amount of co-operation across Departments. It would involve Ministers deciding that they wanted to go down that route. Certainly, that type of analysis would be the type one might look at in the context of spending reviews perhaps. We would look at that. I cannot give any commitment but it is that type of cross-cutting issue. I know what the Deputy is saying.