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
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
A related issue arose for, I suspect, many Deputies about the link to the pandemic unemployment payment where people between 65 and 66, before pension age, who were not eligible for the pandemic unemployment payment for the technical and legislative reasons that we understand. The Minister said at the time that one of the options available was exceptional needs payments or supplementary payments of different kinds. That was a measure to provide support for them. Will Mr. McKeon help me to understand the scale or number of payments made, since I had difficulty with it in my area in making sure that people in that cohort got access to it?
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