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:
The Minister of State, Deputy Joe O'Brien, and the Minister are actively engaged on that matter at the moment. There are some proposals under consideration. It is a policy issue. I do not want to say much more than that it is actively under consideration. I mentioned earlier that there is one thing that disappoints me a little, something we have to get to the heart of, that is, that the community employment schemes, compared with the Tús schemes, tend to reject more of the people we refer. That is something we need to understand. I am not saying that it is wrong, but we need to understand why it is the case.