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:
I will say something and then I will ask the chief appeals officer to contribute. Many of the deciding officers in the Department think it is far too independent. The office exercises its independence. It is a statutory function. On the couple of occasions cases have gone to court, the courts have always commented positively on its independence. I will ask the chief appeals officer to say something on that.
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