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 are not contracting out these services for the first time. The provision the Deputy referred to is if the Department, for example, decided that it was going to contract out its payment function, which is an internally provided service. The local employment services and job clubs are already contracted out.