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
Mr. John McKeon:
That 17 week period has decreased to 16 weeks as of this week. We have reduced the number of pending decisions on carer's allowance by 1,000 in the past month because we allocated extra staff to it. Our main challenge is to get additional medical assessors. We are recruiting medical assessors at the moment. They are being interviewed this week. It is not only a question of getting them but also of holding on to them. We all know that in the medical community-----