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 Verona MurphyVerona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

We would often help first-time applicants and would know from experience that their applications should pass. Our constituency offices are seeing an increase in these cases. One of our primary jobs is filling in forms for this allowance, over and above housing applications, or at least almost equal to same. I am shocked at the level of rejections and the number of cases that we have to appeal. There is an administrative cost-----

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