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:
That is the difficulty with the governance of CE schemes that the Deputy spoke about. It is a problem. We would have concerns in some cases and we have had, for example, cases where we have had to get the Garda involved in issues on CE schemes. There is a context to this. The current situation is that there is a pay claim, as I understand it, in being. It is a matter for the CE sponsors to come to the Department and look for funding for that pay claim, and if that approach is made, we will consider it. We have also had discussions with-----
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