Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 20 October 2016

Public Accounts Committee

2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015

9:00 am

Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

Yes, probably the way I would put it is perhaps not that they are suffering but that the recovery is not as quick there, and the set up of jobs. Obviously, that is something that is now being tackled through the regional Action Plan on Jobs. At local level we are working very closely with both the agencies that are involved in terms of attracting industry and with the local employment offices at county council level to try to address that. We are trying to take a very local perspective on issues as they arise, but there is no doubt if one is unemployed and living in-----

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