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:

I do not think it is one or the other to be honest. We have made a big effort with Ukrainian refugees as well. We have engaged with more than 20,000 of them. We have had one-to-one engagements with more than 12,000 of them. As the Chairman said, many of those people are now in employment. The employment rate of Ukrainian people in Ireland is actually higher than what the OECD or International Labour Organization would report for other countries in the European Union. They expect that the employment rate for Ukrainian-----

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