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:
Yes, there has been a historic issue there but the position of the Department is very clear. They are not employees of the Department. They are employees of the contracting scheme, and there is a union demand - or submission or argument - being made that they are entitled to a public service pension.