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:
The work placement experience programme was one of the measures the Government agreed to as part of the jobs stimulus. I think it was in June or July 2020. It was in the context at that stage where more than 600,000 people were in receipt of PUP and there was a concern that post the Covid pandemic there might not be an employment recovery. It was in that context of very high levels of unemployment. In fact, the experience has been since the end of the Covid pandemic that the numbers on live register have been lower.
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