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:
I cannot give the committee a list of them, but most of them related to situations where we were waiting for a framework contract to be put in place by the Office of Government Procurement. Our own contracts had run out and the new framework contract was not in place yet, so we had to renew the contracts. Regarding the contract for our mobile phone service, for example, we could not leave inspectors and other staff of the Department without mobile phones while we were waiting for a Government procurement contract.