Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 November 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 11 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 12 - JobPath Employment Activation Service
Chapter 13 - Actuarial Review of Social Insurance Fund
Chapter 14 - Overpayments of Age-Related Jobseeker's Allowance
Chapter 20 - PRSI Contributions by the Self-Employed
2017 Social Insurance Fund
9:00 am
Mr. John McKeon:
The DRAS is the transaction system that records the processing of debts and sends a file to our general ledger via an update from an interim reporting system. The DRAS overstates the amount by approximately 0.5%. One would normally expect some difference between the transaction system and the general ledger. We are working it down. In the past year, we undertook a forensic analysis of that debt by PPS number, which involved examining 1.8 million separate transactions, to try to reconcile the amounts. There will always be-----