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:
That is why we are very conscious that the code of practice, which was updated in 2021, should be agreed by us, the WRC and Revenue. The law still says we make separate decisions. That is the legal position. I cannot change that. The legal position is that we make separate decisions. The employment rights ones are for the WRC. I agree with the Deputy that we do not have an issue between us. The main concern for workers, in our experience, is employment rights. That is an issue for the WRC.
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