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:
There were engagements on an official level between different Departments. There was a Government decision and a joint memo to the Government sponsored by our Department and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. It is up to the other Departments to make that real. I cannot write the legislation if it is required for another Department. I am confident that within the Social Welfare Consolidation Act 2005, particularly section 262, other bodies are given the legislative authority to use the card. It is something that may be tested in due course but I am confident the authority is already in place.