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
Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party)
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Okay. Do we know as a percentage how many people are refused? Let us say, there are approximately 20,000 applications. If there is a 50% refusal rate, that is 10,000 people. Therefore, there is a shortfall of 3,000 people who do not appeal. Would it be fair to say that figure is in the ballpark?