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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Yes, but Mr. McKeon will accept the perception is that those investigations have been somewhat limited and maybe a more thorough investigation would give a broader picture. Mr. McKeon said it would result in 15,000 investigations per year. We could look at that from another angle and say if that 15,000 turned up 15,000 misclassifications and multiply that by the loss to the State and the loss of entitlements to those workers, we would be talking about some scandal. Is that not the case?