Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 November 2019
Public Accounts Committee
2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 12 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 13 - Timeliness of Income Support Claim Processing
Chapter 14 - Customer Service - Development of Income Support Application Forms
9:00 am
Mr. John McKeon:
No. That €7 million is demand-led. As such, payments are by their nature exceptional, it is very difficult to forecast what exceptional needs might arise year-to-year. We often have a Supplementary Estimate for exceptional needs as well. Sometimes it is negative and sometimes it is positive.