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
Mr. John McKeon:
They have. We ran two procurements with respect to the local employment services and the job clubs, one at the end of 2021 and one earlier in 2022. We put those contracts on the proper procurement focus. We have not done the EmployAbility contracts yet, but the plan is to do those in 2023. They are community and voluntary organisations and they provide a valuable service. We have got to strike a balance between putting them on a proper procurement footing but doing it in a way that does not disrupt the service, as best as we can. We invested a lot of time and effort into the approach to the local employment services and job clubs. We will be looking to apply the learnings from that as we go into the EmployAbility space.