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
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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An inquiry was conducted by the UK's equivalent of this committee, namely, the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts, into the parent company of Seetec Employment and Skills Ireland and into Working Links. The companies were accused of artificially inflating the figures for people with disabilities. Did the Department pay any attention to that when the contract was being awarded?