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:
We arrived at the figures in consultation with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform based on input and advice we received from the Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion and Professor Dan Finn from the University of Southampton, who has advised the European Commission and others on the design of this type of contract models.
On the second point the Deputy raised, which was related to the figure of 9%, the issue is how it compares with other long-term unemployed people at this time. My point is that it compares favourably.
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