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

Photo of Verona MurphyVerona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

This brings me back to PRSI classifications. I have a number of queries in this regard where classifications have been clearly misapplied. Instead of being class S people are class A or whatever; I have it in my head that it is class A but I know it is not. People who should be classified as self-employed are not, perhaps for four years out of a period of 45 years. It is proving very difficult. If an accountant makes a mistake, is there any recourse for the person applying for the pension? I know there is the ordinary appeal but is there recourse where it is proved that an accountant has made a mistake and is long since gone or is no longer the accountant of the person?

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