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

Ms Patricia Murphy:

As an issue, we are, I suppose, ramping up our approaches in this area. As well as the employer inspections - we are increasing the number of employer inspections, as we said, at the end of this year and for next year - the other avenue on this is individuals coming and querying their insurability of employment. We will also initiate an inspection on the basis of that. They come back into scope and then we will re-categorise the PRSI category that should have been paid at the time. The term focus, I suppose, is really the thing for us.