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:

We predominantly use redeployment of our own staff. The estimate is that the equivalent of approximately 200 staff are full-time engaged. As part this, last year we committed to an in-depth review of the pandemic unemployment payment from a control perspective. In effect, what we have done is-----