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:
Yes, in 2000, 21 years ago. As I understand from Deputy Munster's reading of the letter, the decision in the Department of Social Protection established the criteria by which cases would be judged. It did not establish that everybody in the sector would fall into those categories. I can tell the Deputy definitively-----