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:
It would be lower than the general population but it would be higher than the employment rates for some other countries. The International Labour Organization, ILO, for example, estimated that the employment rate we would expect would be about 25% based on the characteristics. A lot of them, as I said, are women and children and we are looking at situations where a Ukrainian woman might have two children and be living in one bedroom in a hotel in, say, Mayo. When we take all those factors into account as well as the language factor, the ILO has estimated that a good outcome would be 25%, so we are a bit ahead of what it has estimated.
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