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
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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When rent supplement was first established, it was established as a short-term strategy and when RAS first came on-stream, it was talked about as a long-term solution. I have listened to the Department and the Minister recently talk about RAS and HAP not as long-term solutions but as more short-term to medium-term solutions. I am trying to understand whether that is the case. Am I reading it wrong? I spoke to my colleague, Deputy Ó Broin, who is very active on this issue. His sense of it is that the Department now sees HAP and RAS as more short to medium term and not long term. That is the language the Department uses. Am I right in that?