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 are actively looking at that at the moment. Another commitment made by the Minister, which is in the roadmap for social inclusion, is to look at a new scheme for disability payments. Disability payments are currently somewhat binary in nature. A person is classified as either being able or unable to work. The Minister is looking at changing that binary classification and recognising different levels of disability, with different payments and work entitlements at each level of disability. That work is ongoing. We hope to be able to bring a proposal forward about it in the first quarter of next year.

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