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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I will talk to them. I thank the witness for that. Usually individual cases will show a trend as well. I am more interested in the system but individual cases will give one a glimpse into the system and what could go wrong.
We are looking at this from the point of view of whether it is value for money and whether it is progression. Essentially, my understanding of what happens in this process is that the companies are given the detail of an individual who they must sign up to JobPath. The information is passed on from the Department.