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
Okay. I want to ask Mr. McKeon about the Spanish recruitment drive. Last month, the Department of Social Protection in conjunction with the Irish Hotels Federation and the Restaurants Association of Ireland held a recruitment drive in Spain. As I understand it, that was to attract 1,200 workers to the hospitality sector. Was Mr. McKeon's and his staff's role out there to recruit people for those two sectors or to recruit staff for the Department? Was any element to do with recruiting staff to his Department?
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