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 do not think it went on to say that. I am not familiar with the correspondence the Chairman is speaking to in regard to Revenue and I am sure the head of Revenue will speak for it. The situation is that people get a determination and have always done based on the circumstances of their own case. There are standard criteria that are applied. There were cases, if the Chairman wants to call them test cases, that were used to establish those criteria but not to determine the outcome of the application of those criteria. I think that is where the confusion arises. If any worker wants to come to the Department now and have us look at their employment status at whatever time, they can do so.

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