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
Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail)
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We will have to discuss that. Mr. McKeon has drawn the line on commercial sensitivity. A certain sum is paid. Bluntly, what Mr. McKeon is saying is that if he publishes which organisation is getting less than the other, the one getting less will be in tomorrow morning saying it wants more because more is being paid to the other.
That is a cost to the State and we have to understand that too.