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:
-----and the Attorney General will have to advise. The case was lost in the High Court. The Attorney General's office worked on our behalf. Even though we knew the Supreme Court was likely to reach the decision it did, it had to decide what type of order it would make. We had argued there was a type of order it was possible to make to resolve the constitutional issue which would not result in people in prisons being entitled to benefits. We now must consider with the Attorney General whether that is an issue that might be the subject of a further appeal. That is as much as I can say.
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