Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 January 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund
9:30 am
James O'Connor (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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It is €25 billion; I apologise. That is why it does annoy me. I think the euro is very cruel. I know we have to draw a line somewhere, but it keeps coming up.
If you go through the representations from Members of the Oireachtas and how many responses have been sent back - a single euro - it is so mean. It is wrong.