Seanad debates
Wednesday, 26 March 2003
Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2003: Committee and Remaining Stages.
The Minister asked where in her Department she would find the €3 million required. There is wasteful expenditure in the Department. Why was it necessary for it to rent part of a hotel for field officers reviewing social welfare recipients? The town in question has two social welfare offices which would have adequately accommodated the holding of interviews, yet the Department felt it necessary to rent accommodation at a four star hotel. I referred to this last night in the context of the lack of privacy afforded to those involved.
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