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

Mr. John McKeon:

We have started the planning on it. We have a particular pandemic unemployment payment control board, which is headed by our deputy secretary. Planning is well under way. We would have intended to start in January, except the pandemic unemployment payment has been reintroduced. As I mentioned, the Department has some 200 staff managing that scheme for us. If the scheme were to unwind and transition out of payment at the end of January or into February, as planned, those staff would then be directed to this activity. That may still be the case but it will be dependent on developments between now and then.

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