Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 June 2025
Select Committee on Social Protection, Rural and Community Development
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 37 - Social Protection (Revised)
2:00 am
Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
It is very much based on our CSO figures. We have all those figures and our own figures from the Social Insurance Fund. We are very lucky in that we have a fantastic team in the Department whose job is to analyse all the statistics and make the demographic projections. They are doing a super job, which is evident in the health of the Social Insurance Fund. It is also relatively evident on the pensions side of things. Even though they are big increases in expenditure, it is on profile. It is as estimated. This team does super work across all our programmes in terms of demographics, population changes, etc.
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