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

Photo of Jennifer Carroll MacNeillJennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

One has to interrogate it. One could not possibly not ask the question about overpayments.

I refer now to scheme-specific risks. There is a good report about the review and the different schemes. When we inevitably turn to the review of the pandemic unemployment payment and how that has worked, that is an unusual payment in that it is simply put out on a blanket basis and of necessity. The pandemic unemployment payment review, when it comes, will be interesting. What does Mr. McKeon think will be the scheme-specific risks in that scheme compared with others?

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