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:
Yes, reviews are included in that.
As I said in response to Deputy Catherine Murphy, the Department is not trying to frustrate anyone's entitlement. We had to get a balance between applying proper controls and granting entitlement, and that is always the balance. I made the point that the DCA is the fastest growing payment. It has more than doubled in a short few years. We are not frustrating anybody's entitlement. We are doing our best and-----
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