Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 December 2021
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Management of Social Welfare Appeals
Chapter 11 - Controls Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
9:30 am
Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source
Exactly. I suppose this comes to the nub of the issue I want to ask about. I would be very appreciative if somebody could perhaps furnish me with that number afterwards.
Let us work on the basis that it is vaguely similar year-on-year and we are dealing with a number that is in and around 20,000, and we have an appeals process, let us say, in the disability allowance of between 6,000 and 7,000 on average. What would the rate for success be in terms of having a revised appeal in the disability allowance, for example?
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