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:
I can assure the Deputy that we are doing everything that we can within the law. If she saw the consultant's report, which most people have at this stage, there is a recommendation, for example, that the performance element would be 25% and not 10%, that the pricing under tender would be higher and that there would be far fewer regions. We have actually moved as far as we can.