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 Matt CarthyMatt Carthy (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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I am sure we can come back to that and I will look forward to receiving a written response to that later.

I wish to return to the issue of local employment services. Deputy Verona Murphy mentioned the report of a committee. In fact two committees of this House, the Committee of Public Accounts and the Joint Committee on Social Protection, Community and Rural Development and the Islands have launched reports which have recommended the retention of job clubs and of the local employment services model. The Dáil, by unanimous resolution last week, also adopted such a resolution. Is it the Department’s position that it is rejecting all of those outcomes?