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:
We have, Deputy. This point was first raised by Senator Alice Mary Higgins a number of years ago when this was first mooted. Certainly, at that time, we raised all of those issues and comprehensive consideration was being given to it. Unfortunately, from the perspective of the local employment services and the job clubs, the advice is that it applies here. One of the issues is-----