Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 November 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 11 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 12 - JobPath Employment Activation Service
Chapter 13 - Actuarial Review of Social Insurance Fund
Chapter 14 - Overpayments of Age-Related Jobseeker's Allowance
Chapter 20 - PRSI Contributions by the Self-Employed
2017 Social Insurance Fund
9:00 am
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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I am not talking about paying. The Department is paying less, but my point is related to the figure of 9%, which Mr. McKeon quoted moments ago. Notwithstanding that there is a recovering economy and it is easier to get a job, we are dealing with the long-term unemployed. It should not be seen in the same way, but the Department does see it that way and it builds in the discount.