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

Photo of Verona MurphyVerona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate that. I must go to the Dáil Chamber to discuss, during Leaders' Questions, what we call a home care support package. Again, somebody in the Department decided that they would give 1.5 million extra hours towards the home care support package. That is brilliant except when one gets a letter to say that one has been granted the home care support package but there is a line that says the service cannot be delivered. That is my concern here. The Department has engaged with the stakeholders but I am very concerned that it appears to be a box ticking exercise because it will not be delivered.

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