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

Photo of Marc Ó CathasaighMarc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Very good. I just wanted to give Mr. McKeon an opportunity to pick up on that, given he did not have the figure in front of him.

I want to dig a little into those figures on Ukrainians because the Department is very well placed to give us a snapshot of who is here and what the make-up looks like. Mr. McKeon said there is fairly substantial participation in the labour market from those people who are in a position to work. Because of the range of payments the Department makes, it probably has a clear picture not only of how many people are here or have gone back but also of who is here and the breakdown between children, people of working age, people with full-time caring duties and people who might be of a pensionable age.

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