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

Ms Teresa Leonard:

If the UK has moved to that model the Secretary General just mentioned, that would necessitate higher compensation because it could be claimed back off every case we have on our books provided that compensation has been made. Some of the cases that are not recovered reflect cases where no compensation was made to the individual because he or she did not win the case. If we were to move to a situation where it was respective of loss of earnings, by default the amount recovered would have to be greater, mathematically speaking.

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