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

That goes back to my exact point earlier when I talked about the 9% success rate. We have a recovering economy with greater than expected numbers of people in employment. It is a little easier to get a job than it was three, five or seven years ago, which means it is less difficult for these two companies to operate and get people into employment. The Department built in discount rates because of that, yet there is still only a 9% success rate at the end.

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