Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 7 December 2017
Public Accounts Committee
Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 16: Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 17: Management of Social Welfare Overpayments
Chapter 18: Department Reviews of welfare Schemes, Social Welfare Appeals Process, Social Insurance Fund
9:00 am
Mr. John McKeon:
I will take that suggestion on board. I refer tot he case of a young person who is living at home with his or her parents and is on a reduced rate of jobseeker's payment because the parents' means is taken into account. That person will still have access to the back-to-education allowance scheme and if he or she goes on the back-to-education-----