Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 14 March 2013

Public Accounts Committee

2011 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 – Social Protection
Chapter 21 – Expenditure on Welfare and Employment Schemes
Chapter 22 – Welfare Overpayment Debts
Chapter 23 – Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Social Insurance Fund – Annual Accounts 2011

12:35 pm

Photo of Paschal DonohoePaschal Donohoe (Dublin Central, Fine Gael)
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I am conscious that the live register is composed of various figures. Some people are on and off it for short periods while others are on it for quite some time. That figure of 15,807, are the individuals selected so they broadly represent the composition of the live register or are these people who have just come on to the live register?