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 have not done it. Research that has been carried out indicates that the reasons are really associated with what I said earlier. It is the change in work habits; it is getting used to getting up in the morning. To put it bluntly, it is getting used to taking instruction from somebody where maybe one did not have to take instruction before. The other issue is a confidence issue. If one has been three years unemployed one generally goes into a job with quite low confidence. Those are the factors that play into the decline there.