Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 1 December 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection - Social Insurance Fund 2021
Chapter 10: Regularity of social welfare payments
Chapter 11: The recovery of benefit and assistance payments following compensation awards
Chapter 14: Classification of workers for PRSI purposes
9:30 am
Mr. John McKeon:
We have had over 200,000 PPSN applications this year, compared to about 130,000 in all of last year. Much of that is driven by the Ukraine experience. Those 65,000 people are 65,000 extra PPSNs. We have also had an increase from 2,000 to over 10,000 in international protection seekers, all of whom had to be issued PPSNs, so our PPSN processing has been under pressure. We have deployed extra staff and resources to it, including overtime. It was over six weeks and is back down to just under four weeks.
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