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
Brian Stanley (Laois-Offaly, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
There are unintended consequences. I will ask about the unemployment benefits, although it is a policy decision so I do not want Mr. McKeon to go there, and the proposal to increase the benefits in that there would be a graduated level of payments. What kind of timeline is on the implementation of that? I understand there will be legislation and all of that, which Mr. McKeon does not have control over, but what way does he see that working at the official level in the Department.
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