Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 December 2017
Public Accounts Committee
Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund
9:00 am
Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source
One point that jumps out at me in looking at all of this is that the so-called free market is not free at all. Government and taxpayers' money backs up the free market all the time in helping employers to employ people and so on. Is that not right? A substantial amount of the budget goes to the so-called free market. Certainly, it is not free and it is certainly functioning on the basis of taxpayers' money. Is that not right?
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