Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 28 May 2015

Public Accounts Committee

2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 10 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 11 - Control of Supplementary Welfare Allowances
Chapter 12 - Farm Assist
Social Insurance Fund 2013

10:00 am

Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:

Basically, the Department works in partnership with a number of organisations, including job clubs, and all the rest in terms of providing funds in various ways to assist jobseekers in returning to employment. It is a different model because these are commercial entities that will be paid on a payment-by-results basis. Basically, we will refer candidates or clients to them-----