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:
From memory, I think the number of other staff members was about 400. They were mainly from the Passport Office, Bord Fáilte and places that had physically closed. All our offices were kept open and the branch offices in particular stayed open for ten hours a day, five days a week. Our own offices, for example, worked half days. The branch offices really stood up to the plate in that period.
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