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
Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I accept that it is worthwhile even if it is a small number. My other question is around the fact that the final outturn was less than €1 million. The spend on it in 2021 was €600,000. Then, moving into 2022, as I understand it, the budget for the scheme was €63 million, which would seem extraordinary given the low take-up the previous year. Why was €63 million budgeted for 2022?
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