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
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Could we move to recommendation No. 20.1 in chapter 20 of the Comptroller and Auditor General's report? I want to get the Accounting Officer's response to it. It relates to bogus or false self-employment. Mr. McKeon said that following the awareness campaign on false self-employment, which commenced in May 2018, the Department is intensifying its activity in employer inspections by its social welfare inspectors and special investigation unit, SIU, staff. He said it is anticipated that a significantly larger number of employer inspections with a particular emphasis on insurability for PRSI purposes will be carried out in the latter half of 2018 and 2019. What type of records are kept of those inspections?
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