Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 20 October 2016
Public Accounts Committee
2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Department of Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Roll-out of the Public Services Card
Social Insurance Fund 2015
9:00 am
Ms Niamh O'Donoghue:
We have estimated that if we were to extend the homemakers' scheme, which I have mentioned, to allow everybody involved to avail of the full 20-year provision under the scheme, it would cost €286 million in 2017 terms. This would involve including periods prior to 1994, which is when it took effect. That cost would increase over the years.