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:

We are looking at that. I have met the chief appeals officer who operates an independent office from the Department. I have asked her to meet with our chief medical officer. They do not like having to meet, not because they do not like each other, but because of the independent element. However, I have asked them to sit down and discuss this to find out what is going on underneath and to see if we can sort it out. We are doing that at the moment.