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:

Again, the difficulty is the impact on live register rather than impact on employment. I know that sounds really as if I am dancing on the head of a pin, but the live register predominantly represents people to whom we are making payments. It is obviously the impact of a reduction in the number of people to whom we are making payments and what that can mean. We can try to do some sort of exercise to give some indicative figures. I do not have a figure off the top of my head, but we can try and do that for the Deputy.