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:
This relates to the historical cases we started to recover. The number is now down to under 20%. Since that time, some of the compensators have started to engage and we have reached out in a proactive manner. As I said, we were quite passive. The legal obligation is on compensators to engage with us but we have started to engage with them. We are pushing them as hard as we can to engage with us. The legal issue we are looking at, as I mentioned, is whether there is scope, on a legislative basis, to potentially introduce penalties for those who do not engage.
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