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 Brian StanleyBrian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Okay. Mr. McKeon has clarified that. We still have many children. There are women who are handling a difficult situation whereby they have a number of children with them and they might be in a precarious situation regarding accommodation for now. A huge effort is being made to try to help them. Certainly, that is as it should be; they are fleeing war and an awful conflict. A substantial number of people from Ukraine have skills that could perhaps be utilised in some of those sectors. Would it not be better to target our efforts at trying to recruit more of those people into some of those sectors such as hospitality, restaurant work etc. instead of going to Spain to bring in another cohort? We have an awful housing crisis. It is the other big challenge we are facing. Would it not be more sensible for us to try to get some of those people into employment and fill those gaps?

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