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

Photo of Neasa HouriganNeasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party)
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We were at one stage looking at ten days. I have been in contact with the Department before because it has a knock-on effect for women trying to access certain types of healthcare, particularly reproductive healthcare. To wait four weeks is quite serious for some people.