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:
Our Department carries out more econometric reviews of its work than any other in the State. We have published a number of reviews and I will get copies of all of them for the committee. Generally, the outcomes are positive. If one were to bring them back and ask whether the State had broken, that would not be about their purpose. The purpose is not for the State to break even, it is to provide a service to the jobseeker.