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
James O'Connor (Cork East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
One of the reasons I am raising it is because it is deeply disturbing to see the rise of the far right and the political and social effect this is having. What has happened for the past couple of months is not in our nature. Obviously it does not relate to the 2022 accounts. What does relate to them is that staggering increase from September 2022 to September 2023 and, for want of a better word, the correlation with the very high payment, which has now been reduced. It was worth putting the question. Does Mr. McKeon think that paying out that amount of money-----
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