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 would not know. We pay people who present to us on a welfare payment with a difficulty paying their rent and we provide them with a support to help them pay their rent. That is the purpose of rent supplement. That is why it is called a short-term scheme, because hopefully people are in a transitory situation when they are on a welfare payment. For those who have a longer-term need responsibility for their housing needs moves to another Department. That is where HAP and social housing or whatever else comes into the equation.