Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 November 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 11 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 12 - JobPath Employment Activation Service
Chapter 13 - Actuarial Review of Social Insurance Fund
Chapter 14 - Overpayments of Age-Related Jobseeker's Allowance
Chapter 20 - PRSI Contributions by the Self-Employed
2017 Social Insurance Fund
9:00 am
Mr. John McKeon:
The Tús Estimate is broadly in line with what it was for 2017. In fact, the number of people on Tús this year is probably a little higher than it was last year. The outturn for 2018 might be closer to the outturn for 2017. Perhaps it will be a little higher. That is what will happen regarding Tús.
The back-to-education and back-to-work enterprise allowances and the back-to-work family dividend are led by the demand from people leaving the live register. As the number of people on the live register is falling a little more quickly than it had been, not as many people are leaving the live register to go into education or to set up their own businesses. It is purely a question of demand. We are not doing anything.
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