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:
Certainly. We have already started that process, taking the learnings from the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. As is normal with other jobseekers, we will ask people to present to their local Intreo centres to certify their ongoing entitlement. We did this remotely in 2020 and thus far in 2021. On the assumption that the situation with the pandemic is stabilising and, hopefully, improving, we will ask people to present at offices to sign and also to engage with job advisers, job coaches and so on.