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

Photo of Jennifer Carroll MacNeillJennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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I will ask about the group of people described in the informal economy coming to attention and being able to try to provide them supports. Can we identify that group as potentially needing support in the future? How would we do that, having become aware of them and having had a formal contact with the Department? What does Mr. McKeon envisage that this body of learning will mean later?