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 Alan DillonAlan Dillon (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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I welcome the witnesses. I acknowledge their extraordinary work in recent months and years, especially in the response to both Covid and the Ukrainian crisis. Their ongoing efforts and development are much appreciated.

I will start by focusing on non-compliant procurement. I refer to the €31 million allocated to 25 local employment services that were deemed non-compliant procurement. Of those, 24 were EmployAbility Services and there were also 40 job clubs services. Have the issues that gave rise to the cases of non-compliance in 2021 been rectified?