Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 9 December 2021
Public Accounts Committee
2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection
Chapter 9 - Regularity of Social Welfare Payments
Chapter 10 - Management of Social Welfare Appeals
Chapter 11 - Controls Over the Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment
9:30 am
Ms Joan Gordon:
In general, the schemes with the highest success rates for the appellant are those schemes relating to illness, disability or care. That is to be expected given the nature of the questions that are to be determined, which by definition require a high level of judgment, for example, on the impact of the disability and the appellant's capacity to engage in work.