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:
In the normal situation, there are groups we would help with the supplementary welfare allowance scheme and in such a situation, we have the processing capacity to do it that way. In the context of the pandemic, that processing capacity or capability was not there. We will probably still rely on a supplementary welfare allowance scheme for those cases.