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:
Ten days is where we want to be. We have to verify people's identity documentation. You do not just hand out a PPSN. We need to examine the identify documentation, confirm it, make sure they are who they say they are and so on. Where there are urgent cases, we deal with them. Employers can come to us, for example, if they have a worker who needs to get a PPSN for employment purposes. To any employer listening, as I understand it you can take somebody on and have them employed for 90 days before they need a PPSN.
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