Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 18 January 2024
Public Accounts Committee
Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Social Insurance Fund 2022
Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2022
Chapter 13 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 14 - Ex gratia Payments of €1.4 million to Social Welfare Branch Managers
Chapter 15 - Raising Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 16 - Recovery of Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 17 - Actuarial Review of the Social Insurance Fund
9:30 am
Mr. John McKeon:
This is one of the issues. The costs of these packages will be included in the actuarial review where it shows that by 2033, the surplus we now have on the Social Insurance Fund will be eroded and we will very quickly get to a situation where there will be multibillion euro deficits on the Social Insurance Fund. This is what is driving the increase in PRSI rates from the end of this year. Over the next five years, PRSI rates will increase by 0.7 of a percentage point. That will raise between €240 million and €250 million per year. Those are the revenues. We are trying to compensate for those increased demographic costs with those changes.
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