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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I will finish on this as I am taking up a lot of time. I know the witness cannot commit and that policy is for the Government. However, we can certainly ask. Would Ms McGuckin ask the Secretary General that a few hours be put aside for the relevant principal officers, Assistant Secretaries General or Secretaries General to sit down and look at this. Its outcome would be something this committee would be very interested in. It has nothing to do with witnesses' Departments forcing policy. We are asking the witnesses to do it.