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:
I want to reassure the committee that we are very conscious of managing sick leave and absences in the Department and we have a rigorous regime. I do not want to give the wrong impression with the word "rigorous". As the Deputy said, people are entitled to their sick leave and we are sympathetic, but we do interview people when they come back from sick leave to find out about their absences.
We had a number of people on very long-term sick leave at one point and we took measures to address the issues.
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