Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 5 July 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

Public Service Performance Report 2022: Department of Social Protection

Mr. Alan Flynn:

Further to what Mr. Egan said, the PSPR for our Department is structured by the programmes. The naming could change over time but it can be seen as you look through it, it goes through: pensions; working age income and employment supports; illness, disability and carers income supports; income supports for children; and then supplementary payments. Those link very much back to the Revised Estimates Volume, REV, in how the programmes are structured. It is a naming convention but supplementary welfare allowance, which is the particular one the Deputy is asking about, is actually part of the working age portfolio of schemes, of which there are 20 or 30. It is a broad portfolio that covers things such as jobseeker's and treatment benefits as well as supplementary welfare allowance. However, the supplementary one is things like fuel allowance. It is sort of a hodgepodge of schemes at the end and that is why it is the last one. On the naming, “supplementary” is the programme and “supplementary welfare allowance” is within the working age space.

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