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
Mr. John McKeon:
The situation with regard to employment rights, which I think the Karshan judgment made clear, is not determined by a social welfare or tax consideration. Employment rights go beyond that. That is something to be determined by the WRC and the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment. When we had responsibility for employment affairs, the Minister at the time announced that he was considering putting the code of practice on a statutory footing. I think that would be helpful but that is now not my Department.