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
Mr. John McKeon:
Perhaps I will come in on that. To go back to the Deputy's earlier question, I have managed to check the number of applications on the disability allowance. Last year, 21,000 claims for disability allowance were registered. Therefore, approximately 4,000 appeals, approximately one fifth of them, were registered. Of that-----