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 Ukrainian refugees, in particular. As I understand it, they forecast that it would take two years to get to an employment rate of 25%. We are already in excess of that. Many of the Ukrainian refugees are children. Out of 65,000 people, there are approximately 20,000 children. There are approximately 10,000 pensioners. Then, we are down to 30,000-ish. We can then look at how many of those are women who have two children with them and are living four to a room in a hotel. They are not really in a position to take up employment.
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