Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 1 December 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 37 - Social Protection - Social Insurance Fund 2021
Chapter 10: Regularity of social welfare payments
Chapter 11: The recovery of benefit and assistance payments following compensation awards
Chapter 14: Classification of workers for PRSI purposes
9:30 am
Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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When Mr. McKeon is talking about targeting sectors, there is the courier sector, meat processing, journalism and lots of different areas. There seems to be a reluctance on the part of the Department to go in. I think Mr. McKeon said employers would find it very intrusive. Surely the nature of any investigation is to be intrusive? Given that we do not know the extent of the loss to the State, why is this not a priority?