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
Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats)
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Given that Departments are supposed to lead by example, is it not a poor example that people are being employed on an annual basis, for 25 years potentially, without ever having any degree of certainty? Now we are seeing that the whole service is likely to be contracted out. There is a high degree of unfairness to the people within that system.