Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 12 November 2020

Public Accounts Committee

2019 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 – Employment Affairs and Social Protection
Chapter 4 – Control over Welfare Payments

11:30 am

Mr. John McKeon:

That is a matter that the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth will have to look at. Personally, I think there will be difficulties with that because one is imposing an obligation on an employer prior to the legislation being enacted.