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:
I do not know how many people who are in employment have received it. Generally speaking, before the pandemic, about 90,000 to 95,000 additional needs payments were made a year. During the pandemic, it dropped to about 50,000 because many people were getting the pandemic unemployment payment and so on. It is back up at about 95,000. Of those 95,000, about 20,000 are Ukrainian payments. For example, when Ukrainians turn up, as many do, with just a plastic bag with a few bits and pieces in it, we will give them an additional needs payment. About 20,000 of the 95,000-----
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