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
The payments are administered by the community welfare officer. I know I raised this with the witnesses before but I am going to do it again. Mr. McKeon said 20% are online. Some 80% are not online. Sometimes, the people who are most vulnerable are the people who are not online. I think we would accept that.
The term "community welfare officer" tells me it is somebody who is in the community. I do not mean walking around the streets but I would take it to mean somebody who is available. What percentage of community welfare officers are working from home?
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