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:
Yes. If it was purely a matter of finance and accounting we would all say we should go to EFT tomorrow. However, our customers value being able to go to the post office. They choose to go there and we want a payment facility whereby people can go to collect it. When we go to tender we will ask to keep that facility. An in-person payment will obviously cost more money. Once one decides to provide the service, one has to accept the costs.
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