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

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I wish to return to the term "sustained employment". Is that an appropriate benchmark? The Central Statistics Office, for example, would not use sustained employment but rather part-time or permanent employment. It would not use sustained employment as a benchmark. The period of 13 weeks is a low threshold in the context of measuring success. There are four stages up to a year but a period of 13 weeks would not be a success. From where did that period come? Why did Mr. McKeon refer to sustained employment as opposed to permanent employment?

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