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 not published the tender yet so we have not set out numbers. The numbers that will be referred, and we will give it and part of the tender will be a guaranteed minimum referral level which will be set at a rate so that it will make the service sustainable. We will not be looking for people to commit.

The Deputy mentioned the upfront payment. We are in this model and 90% of the payments will be paid when people are referred and the personal progression plan is registered. So it will be an upfront payment, predominantly, at 90%. We will also, as part of the model, be frontloading payments to support cashflow. We have taken those feedbacks and we will be doing that. I honestly believe that they will be in a good position.

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