Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 November 2020

Public Accounts Committee

2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments

11:30 am

Mr. John McKeon:

We have a target of trying to do two control reviews per year. Our control surveys are quite labour intensive work. Since 2012, which is eight years ago, we have done 17 so we are a little ahead of our target of two. The Comptroller and Auditor General would like us to be a little more timely, and I fully agree with him. We have changed the model in the current reviews we are carrying out. It will be a model that will work better. We are moving some of our larger schemes from a point-in-time survey. For example, jobseeker's benefit was done in 2012 and jobseeker's allowance was in 2014. We will do jobseeker's allowance every year on a rolling basis, and we started that this year. Rather than publish the first of the rolling basis surveys we want to get two or three of them because otherwise it is not rolling-----

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