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:

If there are workers like that, they can still come to the Department and they can still look today for the determination of their status. We will deal with it now. We will look back at the circumstances that pertained and we will assess it now. That is always open to workers. We apply the criteria, as I said. I am not aware of any deal. I am assured there was no deal. Even the quote the Chairman gave from the Revenue Commissioners, and I cannot speak for the Revenue Commissioners, referred to one case of one individual.