Seán Fleming (Laois, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Ageing is implicit in the model and assumptions are also being made about birth rates and immigration.

I am moving on to chapter 14 and the issue of overpayments of age-related jobseeker's allowance. A person has to be 26 years old to get the full rate. There is a reduced rate for someone who is 25 years old and a more reduced rate again for people who are between 18 and 24 years old. The 4,700 people on the rate were examined and the Comptroller and Auditor General found that there were 486 people on the full payment who should not have been. How did those errors arise? I do not understand how the mistakes were made if a person's date of birth is known when he or she makes a claim and he or she also has a public services card. Will Mr. McKeon explain that?