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:
Yes. We have referred about 8,000 to community employment and other programmes, including the back to education scheme and so on. Not all of those places have been taken up as yet. Currently, there are approximately 500 people active in community employment and Tús schemes. We have referred some 2,000 people to those programmes, of whom 500 are currently active. There is a time lap. The community employment and Tús people need to interview, accept and take the applicants on board.
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